Meaning of toe dance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dance performed on the balls of the feet or en pointe.
2. The act of avoiding an issue by equivocation, complicated diplomacy, or changing the subject.

Examples

“In the excitement of trying to get the ball launched he may do a momentary toe dance, then crouch, stand, skip, or run before finally lobbing the ball a total of perhaps seven feet.”

“Even the toe dance, so much despised by Isadora Duncan and by the schools she inspired, is essentially creative, not athletic.”

“This is a toe dance that alternates between the toe ( more specifically, the ball of the foot ) and the heel.”

“The eclipse of male supremacy in dancing onstage began in the 1830s when Marie Taglioni established a foothold for women, employing the toe dance as an essential element of ballet.”

“One of my concerns, frankly, is that we are just kind of, you know, we hold a hearing and we talk about it a little bit, and then it disappears from the limelight, and we are kind of doing a toe dance around the problems in Liberia rather than really addressing the problems as forcefully as we should.”

“Even though the wealth is mine, Gordon manages it, which means I still do the toe dance to convince him that “our money,” as he now calls it, is put to good use.”

“We arrived at Quonset Naval Air Station, where Kennedy warned us as he got up to leave the plane that he had a “little toe dance to do” with Rhode Island's Republican governor, John Chafee, who was meeting the president at the airport.”

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