To describe someone carrying out a standard task in an overly elaborate way, with zeal.
Description should be humorous, snarky, taking a jab at the someone who is overcomplicating things.
Etched in my mind is the bookish sounding phrase, “it’s a whole procession.”
Colloquially, “it’s a whole thing with Bob…”? Where, ‘it’ is perceived by Alice as something which doesn’t require so much attention. E.g. shopping for socks.
Edit: Thanks everyone! “Making a song and dance out of it” and “rigamarole” are closest to what I was looking for. I could use “pulling out all the stops” too!
Answer
The standard idiomatic usage in English doesn’t refer to a procession. It’s…
to make a song and dance about [it]
(Collins Dictionary)
If you say that someone is making a song and dance about something, you mean they are making an unnecessary fuss about it.
It often occurs in the negative, as in…
Going shopping for socks is nothing special. There’s no need to make a song and dance about it
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