English Dictionary

chew the scenery

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.

日本語の意味

演技において感情を過剰に表現すること、誇張された、またはオーバーな演技をすること。 / 舞台や映画などで、メロドラマ的またはフランボヤントなスタイルで、大げさな振る舞いをすること。

In the campy horror film, the villain would often chew the scenery, delivering each line with an outrageous flourish.

そのチープなホラー映画で、悪役はしばしば大げさに演技して、台詞の一つ一つを派手に演じた。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.

Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on Coach, spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery.

chews the scenery （ present singular third-person ）

chewing the scenery （ participle present ）

chewed the scenery （ participle past ）

chewed the scenery （ past ）