tapdance


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Synonyms for tapdance

dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes

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He would often walk down the high street, jump out in front of the ladies and "show off by doing a tapdance", remembers one poster.
Not to be outdone, Nils showed he's no slouch on the dance floor as the pair went toe-to-toe, in a fantastic duelling tapdance during yet another classic, I Came To Dance.
It also boasts diversity, placing summer anthem Tapdance alongside JetPlane, which wouldn't be out of place on a Kraftwerk album, and while the title track is a moody affair, any anger is dispelled instantly in the heart-warming Goodbye My Little Friend.
In fact, as the novels progress one of Rowling's great problems is to reconcile the characters' choice for magical rather than technological solutions to their problems, with the readers' awareness that in many cases a mobile phone might be far more practical than a post owl, or that nobody really needs to make "a pineapple tapdance across a desk" (Philosopher's Stone 191), though it might be very funny to see one do so.
It is quite mesmerising to watch size 11 steel-boots shuffling at the speed of light and the show opening focuses our attention on to the unique skills of tapdance.
When Liotta's Krendler insults Starling, it's like watching Peter Boyle tapdance in Young Frankenstein.
The horrific shapes which contort wildly in Dery's funhouse of mirrors are a fascinating backdrop to his `perilous tapdance in the minefield between pop intellectualism and academic criticism'.
Politician Peter Mandelson has said he'd love to be invited onto the show, but wouldn't you rather see Gordon Brown attempt to tapdance his way out of trouble?
There are many people who take one spliff, two or even 20 and who do not decided to tapdance down the slope to Hell like DJ Timbo.