Word: jigging
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...Oxford, bullers wear bowlers. In both universities, they operate as teams, "a distance runner and a sprinter." A curfew violator may make a run for it, but if a buller gets close enough to say "Good evening, sir," in a conversational tone, the jig...
...walked down the narrow corridor flanking the bedrooms. Suddenly my ear caught the notes of a familiar melody. Emerging into the sitting room, I saw a figure in top hat, tailcoat, and gray morning trousers, standing with his back to me, hands in his pockets, happily dancing a jig. As I watched him, he clicked his heels in the air, and from whistling he changed to singing, 'Oh, you beautiful doll! You great big beautiful doll...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
...weaker or more rational man might have conceded by now that the jig was up. But Argentina's Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor conceded nothing. By hook or by crook, he was still determined to be elected President...
...debate on how close the Ger mans came to reversing the tide of war in the Ardennes breakthrough, General Ike said flatly: the professional German soldiers knew the jig was up on the third day of the breakthrough. On that day von Rundstedt found out "he could not go where he intended" (i.e., Liege...