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Definition of soft-shoe in English: soft-shoenoun A kind of tap dance performed in soft-soled shoes. he could dance a jig or a soft-shoe mass noun the choreography combines tap, classical ballet, and soft-shoe as modifier a soft-shoe shuffle Example sentencesExamples - It's this last film that truly paved the way for what ultimately was inevitable for Woody Allen: a full-fledged, old-fashioned musical, with actors singing their hearts out and breaking into impromptu soft-shoes.
- There are also a few musical numbers, including Stan and Ollie doing a little soft-shoe to the cowboy stylings of the Avalon Brothers.
- Sitting in Hirst's west-end Toronto office, they did a Fred-and-Ginger soft-shoe routine talking about the film.
- They make up, however, and perform a duet of ‘Let's Call the Whole Thing Off,’ complete with some soft-shoe moves.
- Apparently soft-shoe dancers covered the stage in sand, and then three grades of sandpaper were rubbed together to make music.
- Fagan gives the group work a flavor of the vernacular, with disco movement, skittering cakewalk and soft-shoe steps, fast tap-dance turns, and the high lifts and dramatic held poses of exhibition ballroom dance.
- In the second quarter of the Rams' loss to the Giants in Week 1, Warner dropped back, pumped the ball, patted it and practically did a soft-shoe dance before defensive tackle Lance Legree sacked him and forced a fumble.
- He invites his team mates to watch him dance and take his incredible soft-shoe routine to heart.
- Arthur Murray might disapprove of the weaving steps our children take as they sashay around the sofa or do a soft-shoe on the stairs.
- It concludes, for example, with a soft-shoe routine by Spacey and the young actor who plays him as a boy.
- In ‘Timeless to Me,’ Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa, playing Tracy's parents, do a nostalgic soft-shoe.
- An Andrew Lloyd Weber musical called Bombay Dreams - with all the songs, sparkles, and soft-shoe that are Bollywood's trademarks - is a hit in London's West End and will soon open on Broadway.
- Grinning and overly cooperative, Corran proceeded to bow, make a strange sign over his head, and do a kind of soft-shoe shuffle over to a mat in the corner of the room.
- The ancient Royal Mile echoed to nothing but the soft-shoe shuffle of an American tourist.
- But there are less serious delights as well, like a 1934 program from a school dance recital that features young ‘Mercier Cunningham’ in a soft-shoe duet.
- I keep whistling the magnificent Eric Idle soft-shoe number with which Life of Brian draws to a close.
- Roger once won a local dance marathon, staying upright with his soft-shoe partner for over 35 hours.
- One-on-one with the goalkeeper, he does a little body-swerve, shows him the eyes, then takes the ball wide with a soft-shoe shuffle and rolls it over the line.
- The band, which includes two part-timers on guitar and keyboards, has an easy-going soft-shoe pop sound, not unlike much of the Promise Ring's more recent material.
- The ball fell to Andy van der Meyde at the far post of the German goal, but before he could perform the necessary soft-shoe shuffle that would have enabled him to tee-up a shot, a German defender had closed him down.
verb [no object]1Perform a soft-shoe tap dance. I didn't remember Pearl could soft-shoe Example sentencesExamples - On an impromptu stage, two song-and-dance men in Santa hats soft-shoe for their fellow GIs.
- Even Toll enjoyed the Danzig number; he amassed his strength and to a shocked audience began to soft-shoe to the music.
Synonyms creep, move stealthily, tiptoe, pad, steal, sneak, nose, sidle, stalk, prowl, slink, skulk, tread warily - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move quietly and carefully so as not to draw attention to oneself.
figurative he soft-shoed into a safer topic of conversation Example sentencesExamples - You may be soft-shoeing around situations that could get you into trouble.
- Aren't you soft-shoeing around her these days?
Definition of soft-shoe in US English: soft-shoenounˈsɔft ˈʃu A kind of tap dance performed in soft-soled shoes. he could dance a jig or a soft-shoe as modifier a soft-shoe shuffle Example sentencesExamples - But there are less serious delights as well, like a 1934 program from a school dance recital that features young ‘Mercier Cunningham’ in a soft-shoe duet.
- In the second quarter of the Rams' loss to the Giants in Week 1, Warner dropped back, pumped the ball, patted it and practically did a soft-shoe dance before defensive tackle Lance Legree sacked him and forced a fumble.
- Roger once won a local dance marathon, staying upright with his soft-shoe partner for over 35 hours.
- I keep whistling the magnificent Eric Idle soft-shoe number with which Life of Brian draws to a close.
- Apparently soft-shoe dancers covered the stage in sand, and then three grades of sandpaper were rubbed together to make music.
- He invites his team mates to watch him dance and take his incredible soft-shoe routine to heart.
- The band, which includes two part-timers on guitar and keyboards, has an easy-going soft-shoe pop sound, not unlike much of the Promise Ring's more recent material.
- There are also a few musical numbers, including Stan and Ollie doing a little soft-shoe to the cowboy stylings of the Avalon Brothers.
- The ancient Royal Mile echoed to nothing but the soft-shoe shuffle of an American tourist.
- It's this last film that truly paved the way for what ultimately was inevitable for Woody Allen: a full-fledged, old-fashioned musical, with actors singing their hearts out and breaking into impromptu soft-shoes.
- One-on-one with the goalkeeper, he does a little body-swerve, shows him the eyes, then takes the ball wide with a soft-shoe shuffle and rolls it over the line.
- The ball fell to Andy van der Meyde at the far post of the German goal, but before he could perform the necessary soft-shoe shuffle that would have enabled him to tee-up a shot, a German defender had closed him down.
- Fagan gives the group work a flavor of the vernacular, with disco movement, skittering cakewalk and soft-shoe steps, fast tap-dance turns, and the high lifts and dramatic held poses of exhibition ballroom dance.
- It concludes, for example, with a soft-shoe routine by Spacey and the young actor who plays him as a boy.
- Arthur Murray might disapprove of the weaving steps our children take as they sashay around the sofa or do a soft-shoe on the stairs.
- They make up, however, and perform a duet of ‘Let's Call the Whole Thing Off,’ complete with some soft-shoe moves.
- Grinning and overly cooperative, Corran proceeded to bow, make a strange sign over his head, and do a kind of soft-shoe shuffle over to a mat in the corner of the room.
- An Andrew Lloyd Weber musical called Bombay Dreams - with all the songs, sparkles, and soft-shoe that are Bollywood's trademarks - is a hit in London's West End and will soon open on Broadway.
- Sitting in Hirst's west-end Toronto office, they did a Fred-and-Ginger soft-shoe routine talking about the film.
- In ‘Timeless to Me,’ Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa, playing Tracy's parents, do a nostalgic soft-shoe.
verbˈsɔft ˈʃu [no object]1Perform a soft-shoe dance. Example sentencesExamples - Even Toll enjoyed the Danzig number; he amassed his strength and to a shocked audience began to soft-shoe to the music.
- On an impromptu stage, two song-and-dance men in Santa hats soft-shoe for their fellow GIs.
Synonyms creep, move stealthily, tiptoe, pad, steal, sneak, nose, sidle, stalk, prowl, slink, skulk, tread warily - 1.1 Move quietly and carefully so as not to draw attention to oneself.
figurative he soft-shoed into a safer topic of conversation Example sentencesExamples - Aren't you soft-shoeing around her these days?
- You may be soft-shoeing around situations that could get you into trouble.
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