all singing, all dancing

Meaning

Adjective

• Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.

Origin

• From the advertising posters used to promote the 1929 film The Broadway Melody – Hollywood’s first all-talking musical (as opposed to partially talking, partially silent) – which proclaimed the film to be “All Talking All Singing All Dancing” – see film poster. In full, the poster reads:
• METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER’S
• ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING
• PICTURE
• THE BROADWAY MELODY