Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dance by a single performer, who is required to execute a complicated figure, blindfolded, among a number of eggs, without touching them.
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Examples
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"What the public accounts committee witnessed today was an egg-dance between her former department, the department of state expenditure, the state law adviser and the State Attorney," he said.
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NP, Van Schalkwyk said that up until two weeks ago the ANC had been doing an egg-dance on the bar-code issue, but "then suddenly they made a U-turn".
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AUCKLAND had to execute a sort of diplomatic egg-dance; but he did it with consummate skill and temporarily satisfied everybody with the promise of a full statement upon trade policy so soon as Peace has been signed.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. Various
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Being now reduced to the weapons of his mouth, he began bullying and cursing horribly: the lazy, worthless urchin, he said, would not do her duty; refused to perform the egg-dance, which he had promised to the public; he would beat her to death, and no one should hinder him.
Chapter IV. Book II 1917
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Here the old Harper with Mignon should enter, and by the curiosity which they excited, gather several country people round them; the Harper would sing various songs in praise of peace, repose and joy; and Mignon would then dance the egg-dance.
Chapter VI. Book III 1917
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You must remember that my lecture was a kind of egg-dance.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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You must remember that my lecture was a kind of egg-dance.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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The disease spread, the flags were multiplied, the operations of war became an egg-dance among miniature neutral territories; and though all men took a hand in these proceedings, all men in turn were struck with their absurdity.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Under the name of "Phyllis" she had earned, ere her limbs were stiffened by age, great applause by her dainty egg-dance and all sorts of feats with the balancing pole.
The Complete Short Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Under the name of "Phyllis" she had earned, ere her limbs were stiffened by age, great applause by her dainty egg-dance and all sorts of feats with the balancing pole.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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