dog and pony show—an elaborate presentation of a new product, program, etc. designed to impress an audience:
- They did a “dog and pony show” for all the faculty and handed out a survey to gauge interest.
show pony—(UK coll.) an attractive fashionable person, especially a performer who enjoys being in the limelight:
- While on tour, he was the target of an infamous comment from Geoffrey who alleged that Cork was a “show pony.”