waltz around

waltz around

To walk or dance around some place in a happy or elated manner. From the way he's been waltzing around all morning, I'd say Todd's date last night went pretty well. We waltzed around the kitchen when we found out Mary had gotten into Harvard.
See also: around, waltz
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

waltz around something

Fig. to move around or through a place happily or proudly. She waltzed around the room, very pleased with herself. Who is that person waltzing around, trying to look important?
See also: around, waltz
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • around (one's) ears
  • find way around
  • gaze around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • ferry
  • ferry (someone) around
  • ferry around
  • chippy around
  • bomb around
References in periodicals archive
It's a lovely acting part and a lovely singing part and then you get to waltz around in the big, fabulous costumes."
The action in the 2-2 draw against Nottingham Forest was great, but I've never seen players having to waltz around opposition defenders AND seagulls!
They use mop slippers to waltz around their kitchen.
Festival fatigue hasn't really set in yet, but one last waltz around a field at Bestival might well bring it on.
He may waltz around five people before he puts the cross in.
Grand Cordon Blatter has a ring to it, perhaps enabling him to waltz around Wissam Alaouite enjoying its premier fiacilities and talking money.
Front-runner Grant Smith and Gary Jones exchanged passes before Jone sent Paul Harsley racing through the middle to waltz around Chris Todd and beat Freestone with an angled shot.
The singing star will belt out Bob Seger's Old Time Rock'n'Roll and will be expected to waltz around the stage.
Sadly, very few people have the time to waltz around with a basket of groceries, stopping to gossip on the high street before waving at the red-cheeked, jolly butcher standing proudly at his well-dressed shop window, and then setting off on their old-fashioned bicycle.
AS a little girl she would watch Come Dancing and make her grandmother waltz around the room with her.
Yet they waltz around Miami as two-bit celebrities and America refuses to extradite them to Cuba.
Once upon a time, aristos would waltz around their estates in ball gowns and wellies and leave the tracksuits to us commoners - and a blue- blooded lady would never dream of exposing her knicks.
ON a painters' van: "Waltz around the house with Strauss.
It is not enough to waltz around wearing blue open-necked shirts talking about your past and sharing people's pain, telling everyone how nice you are but behaving badly.
In one, a city gent stands in a field of vibrant yellow flowers, while in another thousands waltz around Trafalgar Square.