trip the light fantastic

Questions about trip the light fantastic

What does trip the light fantastic mean?

trip the light fantastic means "move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance".

What is another word for trip the light fantastic?

Close synonyms include dance, trip the light fantastic toe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trip the light fantastic a common word?

trip the light fantastic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.