All song and dance synonyms

noun song and dance

• excuse — Attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• defense — the act or power of defending, or guarding against attack, harm, or danger
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
• outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• apologetics — the branch of theology concerned with the defence and rational justification of Christianity
• defence — Defence is action that is taken to protect someone or something against attack.
• alibi — If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
• hosing — an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• artefact — An artefact is an ornament, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
• bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• bill of goods — a list of items for sale, consignment, shipment, etc
• barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
• cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
• histrionics — an actor.
• drama — a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.