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And there's the saying that a good dancer can really polish the floor!
A friend of mine calls some songs "belt-buckle polishin' music". Grab your lady and just sorta sway together. [humming "Sleep Walk"-e]
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And for some reason, thinking about polishing the floor makes me think of actors "dressing the stage"--which would be the blocking to make the stage look interesting in how the actors are placed there and how the sculpture changes as they move to different positions.
I love the part in "The Fantasticks" when Henry tells Mortimer (get this: one single old actor--one!), "Dress the stage, Mortimer! Don't forget to dress the stage!" That's just one of the funniest lines in theatre!
From the Starlight Ballroom,
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dancin' expressions
The other expression for a really good dancer, or something you might say if you were really dancin' up a storm, is
'she could really cut a rug' or, 'man, we were really cuttin' the rug'.
This saying is actually more popular than polishin' the floor', but its association with danncing is not as obvious, since dancing rarely takes place on carpeted floors. Anyone know how cut a rug first became associated with dance?
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I don't know about cutting the rug, but around here, if you "cut a block"--it means you go out cruising around and drinking all night long.
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