Question

Trip the Light Fantastic to dance

Accepted Answer

Those kids in Mrs. Keys's tap-dance class really know how to trip the light fantastic. John Milton, the great English poet of the 1600s, made up this phrase in his poem "L'Allegro" in 1632. Readers thought that the phrase "trip the light fantastic" was a delightful way to describe dancing, and more than 360 years later, we're still using it.

Idiom	Trip the Light Fantastic
Example	Those kids in Mrs. Keys's tap-dance class really know how to trip the light fantastic.
Meaning	to dance
Origin	John Milton, the great English poet of the 1600s, made up this phrase in his poem "L'Allegro" in 1632. Readers thought that the phrase "trip the light fantastic" was a delightful way to describe dancing, and more than 360 years later, we're still using it.

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