All singing, all dancing is an

idiom An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase; but some phrases become figurative idioms while retaining the literal meaning of the phrase. Categorized as formulaic language, ...

meaning "full of vitality", or, more recently, "full-featured". It originated with advertisements for the 1929 musical film '' The Broadway Melody'', which proclaimed the film to be "All talking all singing all dancing". Recently, the idiom has come to be used to describe high tech gadgetry such as smartphones, indicating that the product is very advanced, or has an abundance of features. For example, from a 1995 article in '' The Daily Telegraph'': The phrase also appears in the 1996 novel ''Fight Club'', and the 1999

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

based on it, in which the character

Tyler Durden The Narrator is a fictional character and the primary antagonist appearing as the central figure of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel ''Fight Club'', its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic books '' Fight Club 2'' and '' Fight Cl ...

excoriates his disciples: "You're the all singing, all dancing crap of the world." A 1998 episode of '' The Simpsons'' was titled "

All Singing, All Dancing All singing, all dancing is an idiom meaning "full of vitality", or, more recently, "full-featured". It originated with advertisements for the 1929 musical film ''The Broadway Melody'', which proclaimed the film to be "All talking all singing a ...

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