toe-dance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of toe dance.; A dance performed on the toes.
    — For the first number Bob presented another Bob, namely Bob Murphy, a Cambridge boy who started things going with a snappy toe-dance.
  2. Alternative form of toe dance.; An act of avoiding an issue.
    — Re Guy Davenport's toe-dance around Joan Didion's brilliant Rum River [May 7]: save the non-reviews for the non-books.
动词 v.
  1. To dance on en pointe or on the balls of one's feet.
    — At eight she could perform Chopin, sing Italian classics, paint and toe-dance.
  2. To avoid an issue by equivocation, diplomacy, or changing the subject.
    — For five years, he toe-danced his way through a path of idiotic triple talk, before the FCC finally shouted him down.

词形变化

toe-dances present,singular,third-person toe-dancing participle,present toe-danced participle,past toe-danced past toe dance alternative toedance alternative toe-dances plural toe dance alternative toedance alternative
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