Trip the light fantastic

Dance, as in Let's go out tonight and trip the light fantastic. This expression was originated by John Milton in L'Allegro (1632): "Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe." The idiom uses trip in the sense of "a light, tripping step," and although fantastick was never the name of any particular dance, it survived and was given revived currency in James W. Blake's immensely popular song, The Sidewalks of New York (1894).

The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
  Synonyms: dance, trip the light fantastic toe

Trip the light fantastic may refer to:

• Trip the light fantastic (phrase), to dance nimbly or lightly
• Trip the Light Fantastic (album), by British popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor
• Tripping the Light Fantastic (album), from alternative rock band Lit
• "Tripping the Light Fantastic" (song), by Brian Transeau on his album Ima
• "Trip the Light Fantastic" (album), an album by Ladybug Mecca.

See also

• Light Fantastic (disambiguation)
• Light (theology)

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