fantastic

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

trip the light fantastic

To dance. Taken from the John Milton poem L'Allegro: "Come and trip it as ye go / On the light fantastic toe." Of course, the best part of a wedding is when everyone trips the light fantastic into the wee hours of the morning.

See also: fantastic, light, trip

trip the light fantastic

Jocular to dance. Shall we go trip the light fantastic?

See also: fantastic, light, trip

trip the light fantastic

Dance, as in Let's go out tonight and trip the light fantastic. This expression was originated by John Milton in L'Allegro (1632): "Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe." The idiom uses trip in the sense of "a light, tripping step," and although fantastick was never the name of any particular dance, it survived and was given revived currency in James W. Blake's immensely popular song, The Sidewalks of New York (1894).

See also: fantastic, light, trip

trip the light fantastic

dance. humorous

This expression comes from the invitation to dance in John Milton 's poem ‘L'Allegro’ ( 1645 ): ‘Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe’.

See also: fantastic, light, trip

trip the light fantastic

To dance.

See also: fantastic, light, trip

trip the light fantastic, to

To dance. This locution was coined by John Milton, who wrote, “Come, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe” (“L’Allegro,” 1632). For some reason it caught on (although fantastick was not then, and never became, the name of a particular dance). James W. Blake used it in the lyrics to a very popular Gay Nineties song, “The Sidewalks of New York” (1894): “We tripped the light fantastic—On the sidewalks of New York.”

trip the light fantastic

Dance. The phrase comes from John Milton's poem “L'Allegro”: “Come and trip it as ye go / On the light fantastic toe.” “Trip” did not mean to stub your toe and fall. On the contrary it meant “to move lightly and nimbly.”

See also: fantastic, light, trip

References in periodicals archive ?

Fantastic literature is a troublesome genre to say the least.

Fortin, Jutta Emma. Method in Madness: Control Mechanisms in the French Fantastic

Yet classifying episodes as fantastic based upon modern conceptions of what is real and what is not is inadequate when analysing many medieval narratives.

Crossing the borders of fantastic space: the relationship between the fantastic and the non-fantastic in Valdimars saga

More precisely, during "the process of negotiation which is both translation and the writing of fiction," Capriolo makes space for herself out of Mann's (74), by using the fantastic space of the hotel to blur the distinct limitations of gender roles and representation, and to integrate female voice and creation into literature, without denying, though, the overwhelming influence of the maleauthored canon.

Danielle E. Hipkins. Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Q-Smarandache fantastic ideals, and investigate its properties.

Smarandache fantastic ideals of Smarandache BCI-algebras

I clicked with the family dynamic," Aguirre-Sacasa explains, likening his relationship with his brother to that of Fantastic Four teammates the Thing and the Human Torch.

The real Mr. Fantastic: gay writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tackles the Fantastic Four as the comic book starts getting mainstream buzz

Fantastic Four: Unthinkable is my favorite comic book storyline of 2003.

Waid, Mark. Fantastic Four: Unthinkable

Studies such as the Italian Remo Ceserani's Il fantastico (1995) still see Todorov's work as seminal, even when they question the reductive force of seeing the fantastic as a catalog of textual mechanisms.

Teorias de lo fantastico

The Travel Fair, which will be held in the Town Square, will give visitors the chance to see a fantastic range of holidays at fantastic prices, many of which are exclusive to the Travel Fair and will only be valid for three days.

MetroCentre's the place to go for a fair deal on your holiday

Fantastic Foods Big Bowl of Noodles and Hot and Sour Soup can be replaced with any soup/entree cup providing 250-300 calories/cup; however, women should choose any soup/entree cup providing at least 8% of the DV for iron per serving, such as Health Valley Pasta Italiano Soup or Health Valley Lentil with Couscous Soup.

Quick and easy low-cost vegan menus

Camp Fantastic is designed to help campers shift their focus from cancer to summer fun.

Camp Fantastic celebrated twenty-year anniversary. (Camp News)

When did Sally's employment with Fantastic Firm cease?

A real steal: have you violated ethical guidelines to land clients? (Higher Ground)

Galileo and Fantastic Light are set for a titanic rematch when both horses were among ten five-day entries for the Ireland The Food Island Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

Fantastic Light gunning for revenge over Galileo

In my mind, however, the text balances between realistic explanations of Beloved's presence (she is an escaped slave woman who has been sexually abused by a white man) and supernatural ones (she is Sethe's dead child come back to haunt her), and is therefore an excellent example of what Tzvetan Todorov has called the fantastic.

The Story Must Go On and On: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jazz

Originally collected in two volumes in 1983 in Italy, Calvino's Fantastic Tales, available for the first time in English and in one volume, is a wondrous guide for getting lost, showing us through a land that at first seems like solid, empirical reality, but always ends in a bizarre transformation of the expected.

Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a "triumphant resurgence" of the fantastic tale, offering the explanation that in such writings we recognize "the modern dimension of the fantastic.