ham it up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

ham it up (third-person singular simple present hams it up, present participle hamming it up, simple past and past participle hammed it up)

1. (idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

   You can count on him to ham it up for the camera.

Synonyms

• chew the scenery, ham, melodramatize, overact, tear a cat

Translations

performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有意誇張／有意夸张, 有意夸张 (yǒuyì kuāzhāng), 表演過火／表演过火 (zh), 表演过火 (zh) (biǎoyǎn guòhuǒ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: met opzet overdrijven
• Finnish: ylinäytellä, liioitella (fi)
• French: cabotiner (fr)
• German: zu dick auftragen
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• Hungarian: megjátssza magát
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: exagerar (na atuação)
• Russian: переи́грывать (ru) (pereígryvatʹ), переигра́ть (ru) (pereigrátʹ)
• Spanish: sobreactuar (es), dramatizar (es)
• Swedish: spela över