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tap dance

idiom

Any act or performance, especially one viewed as servile, designed to please, appease, or win the approval of others.


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  1. 01

    dance attendance

    To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).

  2. 02

    dance of the seven veils

    A striptease performance.

  3. 03

    dance on nothing

    To be hanged.

  4. 04

    dance on someone's grave

    To celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.

  5. 05

    dance with the devil

    To engage in risky and immoral behavior.

  6. 06

    double tap

    A tactical shooting technique of pulling the trigger of a weapon twice in quick succession to deliver two shots to the same target zone.

  7. 07

    fan dance

    The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.

  8. 08

    Kick and Prance

    [Cockney slang]dance

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