Idiom
tap dance
Meaning
Any act or performance, especially one viewed as servile, designed to please, appease, or win the approval of others.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He had to tap dance to keep his boss happy.”
“The politician had to tap dance around the difficult questions to avoid upsetting his donors.”
“Faced with an angry board of directors, the executive began a desperate tap dance to justify the company's recent financial failures.”
Examples
simple
“He had to tap dance to keep his boss happy.”
contextual
“The politician had to tap dance around the difficult questions to avoid upsetting his donors.”
complex
“Faced with an angry board of directors, the executive began a desperate tap dance to justify the company's recent financial failures.”
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