kick up one's heels
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To dance.
verb
To relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up, one's, heels.
Example Sentences
- "Above the peals of laughter with which the words were received, rose Jake's voice, "Come on, ole fiddler, play somefin a nigger kin kick up his heels to; what's de use of singing after dat fashion; dis aint no meetin.""
- "He does not get on so well in the evening and night time, when his youthful audience has dispersed, and has been replaced by adults of the tag-rag and draggle-tail breed who have no taste for any tunes but those they can vigorously kick up their heels to, […] ."
- ""Therefore he has a right, for a change, to 'kick up his heels?""
- "Everybody laughed, for he was a clumsy and comical beast to be decorated with roses and daisies. But the lady is proud of him, and now that pampered donkey has nothing to do but pull her Bath chair about, when she is at Holly Lodge, and kick up his heels on a clover pasture."
- "With a sum like that the fellow might easily kick up his heels, as the saying is, and run away, not only out of the village, but even out of the District."
- "If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly."