"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term that has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends. Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.[1]
- ^ Cabana, Paul (January 31, 2001). "The Dog and Pony Show Must Go On!". Fast Company. Archived from the original on May 26, 2010.