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BigDaddyCool
05-14-2010, 09:46 AM
What does it mean to chew through scenery, it doesn't make sense to me and I've been hearing it a lot. I get that it is when someone is being overly dramatic, but I just don't get it.
Jon Kano
05-14-2010, 10:16 AM
Ask Christian Bale I guess.
ClockShot
05-14-2010, 03:02 PM
What does it mean to chew through scenery, it doesn't make sense to me and I've been hearing it a lot. I get that it is when someone is being overly dramatic, but I just don't get it.

Go here. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chew%20the%20scenery)
BigDaddyCool
05-14-2010, 03:07 PM
Doesn't really help. Still don't make no sense.
mitchables
05-15-2010, 02:56 AM
More glutton than artist† he commences to chew up the scenery.
-Parker, Dorothy nee Rothschild
<reference year="6371930"> Play review, alluding to an unidentified actor.This is said to have been the origin of the phrase 'chew up the scenery', used to describe an actor who is 'hamming it up'.</reference>

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<reference year="6371930">there you go. it's because some actor was being self-indulgent and a critic likened them to a glutton.
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Kalyx triaD
05-15-2010, 05:59 AM
I can tell you but I don't like you.