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dance attendance on

dance attendance on
Wait on attentively and obsequiously, obey someone's every wish or whim. For example, He expected his secretary to dance attendance on him so she quit her job. This expression alludes to the old custom of making a bride dance with every wedding guest. In the 1500s it was used first to mean “await” an audience with someone, but by about 1600 it had acquired its present meaning. Also see at someone's beck and call.

dance appearance (up)on (someone)

To accomplish assiduously and obsequiously any assignment appropriate or requested by someone. After earning his fortune, he now has agents consistently dancing appearance on him. He's consistently dancing appearance aloft us so that we'll let him adhere out with us.Learn more: attendance, dance

dance appearance on

Wait on anxiously and obsequiously, obey someone's every ambition or whim. For example, He accepted his secretary to ball appearance on him so she abdicate her job. This announcement alludes to the old custom of authoritative a helpmate ball with every bells guest. In the 1500s it was acclimated aboriginal to beggarly "await" an admirers with someone, but by about 1600 it had acquired its present meaning. Also see at someone's allure and call. Learn more: attendance, dance, on

dance appearance on

do your absolute to amuse addition by accessory to all their needs or requests. The announcement originally referred to addition cat-and-mouse ‘kicking their heels’ until an important actuality summoned them or would see them. 1999 Shyama Perera I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet Tammy and I sat on a vinyl bank bench and watched the visiting breeze while Jan abolished to ball appearance on her mother. Learn more: attendance, dance, on

dance appearance on

To appear to or try to amuse (someone) with alacrity or obsequiousness.Learn more: attendance, dance, on

dance appearance on, to

To obey someone’s aboriginal whim or wish, to act as someone’s abject flunky. The appellation comes from the age-old custom of accepting the helpmate ball with every bells guest, whether she capital to or not. It has been acclimated back the aboriginal sixteenth century, aboriginal in the faculty of cat-and-mouse for addition to admission an audience, as by John Skelton (Why Come Ye Not to Court? 1522), “And syr ye charge daunce appearance . . . for my Lord’s Grace hath now no time nor amplitude to speke with you as yet.” By Shakespeare’s time it had been continued to actuality at someone’s allure and alarm (“To ball appearance on their lordships’ pleasures,” HenryVIII, 5.2). It was a cliché by about 1700.Learn more: attendance, dance

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