| Subject | English | Russian |
| Gruzovik, mus. | a name of a Russian folk song and dance | цыганочка |
| gen. | a name of a Russian folk song and dance | цыганочка |
| gen. | a song-and-dance turn | песенно-танцевальный номер |
| idiom. | give a long song and dance | вешать лапшу на уши (Anglophile) |
| idiom. | give a long song and dance about something | с три короба (наплести с три короба-ПЕРЕВОД от Anglophile andreon) |
| idiom. | give a long song and dance | наплести с три короба (about something Anglophile) |
| Игорь Миг | give a long song and dance | лепить горбатого |
| idiom. | give someone a song and dance | вешать лапшу на уши (about something; to offer a complicated excuse for something that is difficult to believe: Every time she is late she gives me a song and dance about oversleeping. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | give someone a song and dance | рассказывать сказки (about something; to offer a complicated excuse for something that is difficult to believe: Every time she is late she gives me a song and dance about oversleeping. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | give someone a song and dance | рассказывать байки ("Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." "The girl's name is Gladys Crane," Breeze said. "So she told me. I never heard of her." (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| idiom. | give someone a song and dance | морочить голову ("I guess now we can do some business together." "Not that way," I said. "Huh?" He bent his eyebrows together. (...) "Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| idiom. | give someone a song and dance | наплести с три короба (It had to be that way. Just as when Marriott called me up and gave me a song and dance about a jewel ransom payoff it had to be because I had been to see Mrs. Florian asking about Velma. (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver) |
| idiom. | give the same song and dance | заводить свою шарманку (давать одно и то же (неуместное) объяснение votono) |
| idiom. | give the same song and dance | заводить старую песню (давать одно и то же (неуместное) объяснение votono) |
| gen. | he gave money to charity but he never made a song and dance about it | он жертвовал деньги на благотворительность, но никогда этого не афишировал |
| gen. | he gave us a song and dance about where he'd been all day | он долго нам объяснял, где он пропадал целый день |
| gen. | introduce songs and dances into the programme | вставлять в программу песни и танцы (some music into a play, phonetics into the list of subjects to be studied, a story into the conversation, etc., и т.д.) |
| gen. | introduce songs and dances into the programme | вводить в программу песни и танцы (some music into a play, phonetics into the list of subjects to be studied, a story into the conversation, etc., и т.д.) |
| gen. | introduce songs and dances into the programme | включать в программу песни и танцы (some music into a play, phonetics into the list of subjects to be studied, a story into the conversation, etc., и т.д.) |
| idiom. | iteration of same song and dance | все та же старая песня (amorgen) |
| idiom. | iteration of same song and dance | танцы с бубном (amorgen) |
| inf. | make a real song and dance | устроить настоящий спектакль (Am. Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | make a real song and dance | устраивать настоящий спектакль (Am. Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | make a right song and dance | устроить настоящий спектакль (Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | make a right song and dance | устраивать настоящий спектакль (Andrey Truhachev) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | делать подвиг (about – из своих достижений: He used his money to help others–but he never made a song and dance about it 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | раздувать (about something – что-либо Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | делать трагедию (about something – из чего-либо 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | раструбить на всю округу (about something 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | поднять хай (about something – из-за чего-либо: I only asked her to move her car but she made such a song and dance about it.) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | поднимать кипиш (about something – из-за чего-либо VLZ_58) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | трубить на каждом углу (about – о своих достижениях 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance | поднимать хай (about something – из-за чего-либо) |
| Makarov. | make a song and dance about | раздувать какое-либо событие |
| Makarov. | make a song and dance about | поднимать шум вокруг (чего-либо) |
| gen. | make a song and dance about | поднимать шумиху вокруг (sth., чего-л.) |
| idiom. | make a song and dance about it | делать из мухи слона (VLZ_58) |
| gen. | song and dance | свистопляска |
| idiom. | song and dance | преувеличивать (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| idiom. | song and dance | устраивать настоящий спектакль вокруг (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| slang | song and dance | алиби |
| slang | song and dance | самооправдание |
| slang | song and dance | чепуха |
| cliche. | song and dance | отговорка (igisheva) |
| gen. | song and dance | пустой вздор |
| slang | song and dance | вздор |
| idiom. | song and dance | раздувать (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| inf. | song and dance | пустяки, чепуха (амер.) You can find this for a song and a dance – Вы можете купить это за сущие копейки jouris-t) |
| amer. | song and dance | пустые отговорки |
| amer. | song and dance | пространные объяснения (He gave us a song and dance about where he'd been all day. – Он долго нам объяснял, где он пропадал целый день. alexs2011) |
| fig. | song and dance | сказка (выдумка igisheva) |
| fig. | song and dance | танцы с бубном (Ремедиос_П) |
| inf. | song and dance | скандал (If any other part of the machine broke, the farmer would be down at the dealer causing a song and dance. – Если выходила из строя ещё какая-нибудь деталь машины, фермер устраивал дилеру скандал. alexs2011) |
| gen. | song and dance | шумиха |
| gen. | song and dance | песни и танцы |
| gen. | Song and Dance Company | ансамбль песни и пляски (Anglophile) |
| gen. | song and dance company | ансамбль певцов и танцоров |
| gen. | song-and-dance | песни и танца |
| hist. | the Red Army Ensemble of song and dance | Ансамбль песни и пляски Красной Армии |
