词汇 | trip the light fantastic |
词源 | trip the light fantastic. Milton’s poem “L’Allegro” (1632) gives us this expression, meaning “to dance”: Haste the Nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity . . . Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastick toe. |
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