| 词汇 | chew up the scenery |
| 词源 | chew up the scenery. To overact or ham it up. Originally only a theatrical expression, these words can be traced to their inventor, Dorothy Parker, who used them first in a 1930 theater review: “More glutton than artist . . . he commences to chew up the scenery.” |
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