dài nhằng

Bài phát biểu của ông ấy dài nhằng và chán ngắt.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Tediously long, interminably drawn-out: Describes something that is excessively and annoyingly long in duration, extent, or speech, often causing impatience or boredom. It emphasizes a negative, burdensome quality of length.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bài phát biểu của ông ấy dài nhằng và chán ngắt. (His speech was tediously long and boring.)
  • Đừng kể câu chuyện dài nhằng ấy nữa. (Don't tell that interminably long story anymore.)
  • Thủ tục hành chính dài nhằng làm mất nhiều thời gian. (The tediously long administrative procedures waste a lot of time.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in informal, colloquial contexts to express complaint or frustration about the excessive length of an event, process, or narrative.

Variants and Related Words

• Dài dòng (adj): long-winded, verbose (often referring to speech or writing).

  • Lời giải thích của cô ấy hơi dài dòng. (Her explanation was a bit long-winded.)

• Lê thê (adj): dragging on, protracted.

  • Cuộc họp diễn ra lê thê cả buổi chiều. (The meeting dragged on for the whole afternoon.)

Synonyms

• Protracted: Lasting for a long time or longer than expected.
• Interminable: Endless or seemingly endless (often used negatively).
• Tedious: Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

Related Idioms

• Dài như địa lý: As long as a geography textbook (an idiom meaning extremely long and detailed, often unnecessarily so).
  • Báo cáo của anh ta dài như địa lý. (His report was as long as a geography textbook.)