toe dance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of avoiding an issue by equivocation, complicated diplomacy, or changing the subject.
verb
Alternative form of toe-dance.
verb
Alternative form of toe-dance.
Example Sentences
- "In the excitement of trying to get the ball launched he may do a momentary toe dance, then crouch, stand, skip, or run before finally lobbing the ball a total of perhaps seven feet."
- "Even the toe dance, so much despised by Isadora Duncan and by the schools she inspired, is essentially creative, not athletic."
- "This is a toe dance that alternates between the toe ( more specifically, the ball of the foot ) and the heel."
- "The eclipse of male supremacy in dancing onstage began in the 1830s when Marie Taglioni established a foothold for women, employing the toe dance as an essential element of ballet."
- "One of my concerns, frankly, is that we are just kind of, you know, we hold a hearing and we talk about it a little bit, and then it disappears from the limelight, and we are kind of doing a toe dance around the problems in Liberia rather than really addressing the problems as forcefully as we should."
- "Even though the wealth is mine, Gordon manages it, which means I still do the toe dance to convince him that “our money,” as he now calls it, is put to good use."