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tread the boards

verb as in act

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So, has she any desire to tread the boards again?

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Now Finlayson has been memorialised with a new portrait in the Scottish theatre where he first tread the boards more than a century ago.

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At 83, he is eager to tread the boards once again — and to continue working as steadily as he has for the last six decades.

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Antony Costa is swapping the boy band Blue to tread the boards while embracing his Greek heritage.

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Carr is also going to appear in the third season of Netflix's series The Witcher, and said: "I'm getting smaller roles, but in bigger things, since I won last year - but no theatre work. I'm desperate to tread the boards again."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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