Timeline for Why does "trip the light fantastic" mean "to dance"?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 8, 2017 at 0:34 | comment | added | phoog | @Mari-LouA but the poem is mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the phrase: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_the_light_fantastic_(phrase) | |
| May 3, 2017 at 7:40 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | If you look at the Wikipedia page about the Allegro poem, (2nd link) amazingly the lines containing "Come, and trip it as you go, on the light fantastic toe." are missing! Or not mentioned. It seems crazy, but it's true. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 4:34 | comment | added | VonC | @Mari-LouA Thank you. I have replaced the first link, and restored the second one. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 4:34 | history | edited | VonC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2016 at 0:42 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Yeah, Ngram shows that "trip the light fantastic toe" was still quite common, up until about 1975. Prior to 1880 or so it was the only common version of the term. | |
| Mar 18, 2011 at 19:43 | vote | accept | Claudiu | ||
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| Dec 1, 2010 at 15:47 | history | answered | VonC | CC BY-SA 2.5 |