trip the light fantastic

Example Sentences

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Later that evening, the newlyweds will trip the light fantastic at Frogmore House alongside 200 of their closest friends.

From BBC • May 7, 2018

Even if you have more in common with a wooden nutcracker than a sugarplum fairy, you can still trip the light fantastic — emphasis on tripping — during a drop-in lesson at Ballet Fantastique .

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2017

Ulster, expected to play a territorial kicking game, seemed intent on showing it was not just Leinster who could trip the light fantastic.

From BBC • May 19, 2012

There is no end of wire-pulling to be clone if daughter is to trip the light fantastic at the Autumn Ball, up in Tuxedo Park, the Junior Assemblies, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Here, take Rosebud; he'll trip the light fantastic toe with you as long as you like."

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]