tap with

tap (someone or something) with (something)

To use some item or instrument to strike someone or something very swiftly and lightly. He tapped the nail with his hammer so as not to damage the wall. The police officer tapped the man with his baton and asked what he was up to.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tap something with something

to make light blows on something with something. Alice tapped the table with her keys in an annoying fashion. Just tap the nail lightly with your hammer.
See also: tap
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • tap (someone or something) with (something)
  • rap at
  • rap at (someone or something)
  • rap on (something)
  • hit the nail on the head, to
  • go into
  • go into (something)
  • hit the nail (right) on the head
  • hit the nail on the head
  • nail a/the lie
References in periodicals archive
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Tapping in to style; ABI JACKSON asks some industry pros to runs through the options when it comes to taps
Methven's Gaston sink mixer tap with black accent, from RRP
Top tips for choosing taps; Abi Jackson asks some industry pros to run through the options when it comes to faucets
Figure 1 presents a classic tap with four flutes and the chips' shape obtained during the tapping process.
Correlation between cutting forces and tool wear when thread tapping AISI P20 hardened steel
A tap with a L2 designation is 0.0010 below the basic size.
Selecting correct taps--let's go back to the basics
As a child, Allen studied dance and music at the Elma Lewis School in Roxbury and tap with Stanley Brown, which connects her son directly into the rich Boston lineage of African American artists and tappers, including Jimmy Slyde, Dianne Walker, and the late Leon Collins.
Cyrus Brooks: Boston's very own hoofer-tapper hits hard as dancer and choreographer
A Miami native, Salstein, 22, studied jazz and tap with Mia Michaels before turning to ballet after winning a Star Search contest when he was 11.
Debut: Craig Salstein: finding his rhythm
From Bali to Japan, choreographers are creating a fusion of tap with concepts as diverse as Afro-Cuban beat and Norse gods.
Blame it on the bossa nova: Tapper Cintia Chamecki brings the rhythms of her native Brazil to a playful new fusion
Often, this movement is programmed to coincide closely with the disengagement of the tap with the hole.
Tame troublesome tapping operations
"They're bringing together a new combination of musical and theater traditions, which is then presented hack in the States." An example is Brazilian-based Valeria Pinheiro of Vata Tap, who blends tap with legends of Afro-Brazilian deities (orixas).
Listening down: the future of tap is looking up
Third, Butterfly has a long track record of linking tap with social justice issues.
A butterfly sits in
Performers included COBU, a trio of women from Japan who combined rhythm tap with taiko drumming; Rod Ferrone and Marietta Clark in a vaudeville-style act; Jenny Lane in a tribute to tap legend Eleanor Powell; Gil Stroming and Break the Floor in a Stomp-like rhythm-tap-and-bucket drumming fusillade; teen up-and-comer Michela Marino Lerman; the irrepressible singer Mable Lee; and Rhythm Iss, a quintet of women rhythm tappers impressive as much for their exuberant spirit as for their blistering footwork.
Tap Extravaganza[R] 2003
It took several years to catch up with Savion Glover and talk tap with him.
Savion brings back 'da Noise
boasts a strong repertory of rhythm- and jazz-influenced tap with pieces by Cartier, Stegmann, Jay Fagan, and Lane Alexander, among others.
Chicago Dancer's Guide
Add to these moderns Barry Blumenfeld, who calls his work Tap Fusion, a combo of tap with modern.
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