acting (or dancing, on stage) is sometimes called
tripping the light fantanstic, i never knew (or to be honest thought about) the origin of the phrase, but now i wonder if it is from another translation, or just a mis remembered quote.

to trip can be to fall, but you can also take a trip (tour) so tripping can be traveling.

trip used in the quote:
"Come and trip it as you go,
On the light fantastic toe."
is trip (i think) in the sense of travel.

meanwhile does anyone walk an cement?
and is that SEEment or s(a)Ment
(the a really being a schwa)

In NYC, we used to have stone streets (they date back to the dutch government, that first required streets to be paved, the first paved street is still in existance in lower manhattan, is 'stone street' -it was home to most of the breweries)

the stones are commonly called "cobble stones" but are correctly 'belgium paving blocks' -shaped like large bricks, each weights 6 to 10 pounds (circa just under 3 to just about 5 kilos)

in various places, around the city, they remain, hidden under a few inches of 'tar'--black tarmac paving material.

Tar is what we used to call streets, (tar or cobbled) now most kids call the street blacktop

my other obsession