Scenery-chewing

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That chews the scenery; excessively flamboyant or overacting

    "When Mitzi's Uncle Boris (a scenery-chewing Judd Hirsch) visits, he is too on the nose when he advises, "Art will tear your heart out.""

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"When Mitzi's Uncle Boris (a scenery-chewing Judd Hirsch) visits, he is too on the nose when he advises, "Art will tear your heart out.""

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