Difference between revisions of "Trippiery"
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* '''trip:''' to move with short light steps or skips; to dance | * '''trip:''' to move with short light steps or skips; to dance | ||
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+ | * '''trip ... toe:''' (''phrase'') 'trip the light fantastic toe': to dance nimbly (from John Milton's L'Allegro: 'Come, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe') | ||
[[Category:French phrases]] | [[Category:French phrases]] |
Latest revision as of 10:32, 25 January 2020
- Trippière: (French) a dance → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- Tipperary: a county in Munster
- trip: to move with short light steps or skips; to dance
- trip ... toe: (phrase) 'trip the light fantastic toe': to dance nimbly (from John Milton's L'Allegro: 'Come, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe')