trip the light fantastic
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
We Merricks never amounted to much, an' didn't hanker to trip the light fantastic in swell society.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
