trip the light fantastic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- trip the light fantastic toe (obsolete)
trip the light fantastic (third-person singular simple present trips the light fantastic, present participle tripping the light fantastic, simple past and past participle tripped the light fantastic)
- To dance or to move rhythmically to musical accompaniment, especially in a graceful or nimble manner.
- 1978 May 31, "Movies", in the St. Petersburg Independent, page 11-B:
- "Swing Time:" Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers trip the light fantastic in this yarn about a dancer with a yen for gambling.
2005 June 1, Kevin Kittredge, “Royal Ballet”, in Roanoke Times, retrieved 4 October 2008:
In the fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, they each wear out a pair of dancing shoes nightly, tripping the light fantastic in a magic forest.
- 1978 May 31, "Movies", in the St. Petersburg Independent, page 11-B: