单词 | to trip the light fantastic |
释义 | > as lemmasto trip (also skip, step, etc.) the light fantastic to trip (also skip, step, etc.) the light fantastic: to dance, esp. to take part in ballroom dancing. ΚΠ 1852 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 22 June There are nightly assemblies where you may ‘trip the light fantastic’, until the morning sun shall warn you that honest people are abroad. 1913 J. Galsworthy Dark Flower i. vii. 34 When I was your age I twirled the light fantastic with the best. 1923 Smart Set Sept. 44/1 I'd ask you to skip the light fantastic with me, but I never was a dancing man. 2011 Daily Tel. 11 July 29/1 Betty Ford needed no encouragement to trip the light fantastic, and posted a huge photograph in one of the White House offices of herself dancing with Cary Grant. < as lemmas |
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