toe-dance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To dance on en pointe or on the balls of one's feet.

   “At eight she could perform Chopin, sing Italian classics, paint and toe-dance.”

2. fiil To avoid an issue by equivocation, diplomacy, or changing the subject.

   “For five years, he toe-danced his way through a path of idiotic triple talk, before the FCC finally shouted him down.”

3. isim A dance performed on the toes.

   “For the first number Bob presented another Bob, namely Bob Murphy, a Cambridge boy who started things going with a snappy toe-dance.”

4. isim An act of avoiding an issue.

   “Re Guy Davenport's toe-dance around Joan Didion's brilliant Rum River [May 7]: save the non-reviews for the non-books.”