Dance Phrases

Phrases

• Acid house
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• All singing, all dancing
• Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke song)
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• Bachelorette party (Hen night)
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Beat It (Michael (Jackson song)
• Behind the eight ball
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Body popping
• Boogie on down
• Boogie woogie
• Bunny hop
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Come to the aid of the party
• Come to the party
• Cuddle party
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Cut a rug
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Dance around the problem
• Dance attendance on
• Dance like nobody's watching
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance the night away
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dance your socks off
• Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner movie)
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dancing cheek to cheek
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Dancing on air
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Different ball game
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Don't get your knickers in a twist
• Drop the ball
• End of the ball game
• Fancy footwork
• Fascinatin' Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
• Get into the swing of it
• Get the ball rolling
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• Have your card marked
• Hen party
• High ball
• High stepper
• Hip hop
• Hips Don't Lie (Shakira with Wyclef Jean song)
• Hoe down
• Hop it
• Hop off
• Hop to it
• Hop, skip and jump
• I Got Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• I'll swing for you
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• In full swing
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• In the swing
• Injured party
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It takes two to tango
• It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To (Lesley Gore song)
• Jack Palancing (Cockney rhyming slang for dancing)
• Jig around
• Jive talk
• Jive talkin' (Bee Gees song)
• Jungle boogie
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• La Bamba (Richie Valens song)
• Last Tango In Paris (Marlon Brando movie)
• Lead a merry dance
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Let's party
• Life and soul of the party
• Light on your feet
• Lindy Hop (Nickname of Charles Lindbergh)
• Make a song and dance about
• Mosh pit

• Moves like Jagger (Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera song)
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Necktie party
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No room to swing a cat
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• On the ball
• Party Like It's 1999 (Prince song)
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Party animal
• Party down
• Party girl
• Party hearty
• Party in the U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus song)
• Party line
• Party on
• Party on! (A catchphrase from Wayne's World In Saturday Night Live)
• Party political broadcast
• Party pooper
• Party season
• Party till dawn
• Party time
• Party wall
• Play ball
• Private Dancer (Tina Turner album)
• Round the twist
• Run with the ball
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Save the last dance for me
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• Shake your booty
• Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly movie)
• Skip to My Lou (Nickname of Rafer Alston)
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Slumber party
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Smooth move
• Song and dance
• Song and dance man
• Spandau Ballet
• Spot the ball
• Start the ball rolling
• Strut your funky stuff
• Strut your stuff
• Sultan of Swing (Nickname of Wasim Akram - Pakistani cricketer)
• Swing both ways
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Swing in the wind
• Swing the lead
• Tailgate party
• Take a swing at
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take me out to the ball game
• Tea Party Express
• Tea party Taliban
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Boston Tea Party (historical event where chests of tea were dumped into Boston harbour)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Dancing Bear (Nickname of Ron McDole)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Highland Fling
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The ball is in your court
• The belle of the ball
• The jig is up
• The old ball and chain
• The party's over
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The way the ball bounces
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• Throw a shape
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Trip the light fantastic
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Twinkle toes
• Twist And Shout (Beatles song)
• Twist around your little finger
• Twist in the wind
• Twist of fate
• Twist the knife
• Twist your arm
• Two left feet
• Walk like an Egyptian (Bangles song)
• Waltz off with
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• Wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom
• Working party
• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (Baccara song)
• You know when you've been Tango'd (Tango advertising slogan)

Related

• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Dance around the problem
• Dance attendance on
• Dance like nobody's watching
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance the night away
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dance your socks off
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Lead a merry dance
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Make a song and dance about
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Save the last dance for me
• Song and dance
• Song and dance man