dance

dance attendance on do your utmost to please someone by attending to all their needs or requests.

☞ The expression originally referred to someone waiting 'kicking their heels' until an important person summoned them or would see them.

1999Shyama PereraI Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet Tammy and I sat on a vinyl bench seat and watched the visiting flow while Jan disappeared to dance attendance on her mother.

dance to someone's tune comply completely with someone's demands and wishes.

lead someone a (merry) dance cause someone a great deal of trouble or worry. British

2013Independent Almost 70 years after that night … Henry James wrote one of his most famous novels, The Aspern Papers. It was the result of a conversation with a friend about an American collector, Captain Silsbee, who had been led a merry dance by an aged Claire Clairmont, who had held out the promise of some letters of Shelley's and Byron's only to pressure the hapless Silsbee into marrying her spinster niece.

song and dance: seesong.

词组	dance
释义	dance dance attendance on do your utmost to please someone by attending to all their needs or requests. ☞ The expression originally referred to someone waiting 'kicking their heels' until an important person summoned them or would see them. 1999Shyama PereraI Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet Tammy and I sat on a vinyl bench seat and watched the visiting flow while Jan disappeared to dance attendance on her mother. dance to someone's tune comply completely with someone's demands and wishes. lead someone a (merry) dance cause someone a great deal of trouble or worry. British 2013Independent Almost 70 years after that night … Henry James wrote one of his most famous novels, The Aspern Papers. It was the result of a conversation with a friend about an American collector, Captain Silsbee, who had been led a merry dance by an aged Claire Clairmont, who had held out the promise of some letters of Shelley's and Byron's only to pressure the hapless Silsbee into marrying her spinster niece. song and dance: seesong.
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