hokey-cokey

Bruce Ross-SmithOxford• This dance correspondence is all very well Letters, 17 May, but only one set of dance instructions offers existential clues to the meaning of life, the universe and everything: "You do the hokey-cokey and you turn around / That's what it's all about."

Letters: Poetry in motion 2011

Misbah says they have made one hokey-cokey sort of team change, with Aizaz Cheema coming back into the team instead of Junaid Khan, a direct reversal of the switch they made in the last Test.

Pakistan v England – day one live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth 2012

Peccadillo of mine, I guess … just like my fondness for dressing up in pigsflesh and doing the hokey-cokey.

Historic, historical: usage and advice 2009

In some newspapers, this was reported as students dancing the hokey-cokey.

Student protest: how the Harry Potter generation turned into a band of rebels Robert McCrum 2010

Actually, it's a 'hokey-cokey' horse - except that someone forgot to take the left and right legs out again.

Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse Cosmo7 2009

There is some statistical hokey-cokey in that last paragraph of course.

Names 2004

It's a sedate hokey-cokey set to a slow drum beat, in which you take turns in the centre.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Misbah says they have made one hokey-cokey sort of team change, with Aizaz Cheema coming back into the team instead of Junaid Khan, a direct reversal of the switch they made in the last Test.

The Guardian World News Andy Bull 2012

After some contract hokey-cokey, it looks like we've now secured the aforementioned permanent quarters.

Site Home computer.whisperer 2011

Keith Vaz did the hokey-cokey with a young woman whose Page 3 dress sense rivalled Rihanna's.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Cristina Odone 2011