| 单词 | to cut a rug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut a (also the) rug P3. chiefly North American. to cut a (also the) rug: to dance, esp. to jazz or swing music. [in allusion to the vigorous motion across the dance floor, which is taken as damaging the carpet (compare quot. 1937 for rug-cutter n. at Compounds 2b); compare slightly earlier rug-cutter n., rug-cutting n.] ΚΠ 1938 Afro-American 23 July 11/3 (caption) Cutting the Rug. Roderick Gordon and Miss Bobbie Burrus give demonstration at Little Comedy Club in Baltimore. 1940 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) 207/3 America's palsy-walsy, England's a trifle smug, While England does the stately waltz, America cuts a rug. 1943 N.Y. Times 9 May ii. 5/4 Why, brother, all the cats cut a mean rug to that music. 1978 Jet 2 Feb. 57 (caption) Sen. Humphrey, the ‘second best dancer in Washington’, cuts the rug..at a New York party in his honor. 2008 Tampa Tribune (Florida) (Nexis) 14 May Expect to see..a few dozen couples cutting a rug in the middle of the wooden dance floor. < as lemmas |
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