twinkle toes
Example Sentences
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Nick Mohammed turned out to be something of a twinkle toes, making it through with relative ease.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
The story unwinds with histrionics and homilies, jazz hands and twinkle toes, overly busy camerawork and hookless lung bursters.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2020
Bowen showed twinkle toes to cut Leeds to ribbons at the back and then converted his own score to fire Wigan ahead.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2015
It’s likely your son’s classmates will love his twinkle toes.
From Slate • May 19, 2015
Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants.
From Time Magazine Archive
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