cut a rug
1cut a rug — To cut a rug is to dance …
2cut a rug — phrasal slang : dance; especially : jitterbug * * * cut a (or the) rug informal dance, typically in an energetic or accomplished way you can cut a rug when dance bands and singers …
3cut a rug — verb To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century. Young generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug …
4cut a rug — old fashioned to dance. Twenty disco classics on one CD. Now there s music to cut a rug to …
5cut a rug — ► cut a (or the) rug informal, chiefly N. Amer. dance. Main Entry: ↑cut …
6cut the rug — ► cut a (or the) rug informal, chiefly N. Amer. dance. Main Entry: ↑cut …
7Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock — Infobox Single | Name = Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock Artist = The Bluetones from Album = Expecting to Fly Released = 1996 Format = CD, Cassette, 7 Recorded = Genre = Length = Label = Producer = Chart position = * #7 (UK) Last single = Slight Return… …
8cut a rug — vb to dance. A lighthearted expression which was fashionable in the jitterbug era and in the post war language of rock and jive. It still survives in jocular use …
9cut — ► VERB (cutting; past and past part. cut) 1) make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp implement. 2) shorten or divide into pieces with a sharp implement. 3) make, form, or remove with a sharp implement. 4) make or design (a …
10rug — 1550s, coarse fabric, of Scandinavian origin, Cf. Norw. dial. rugga coarse coverlet, from O.N. rogg shaggy tuft, perhaps related to RAG (Cf. rag) and perhaps also ROUGH (Cf. rough). Sense evolved to coverlet, wrap (1590s), then mat for the floor… …