merry dance

noun

Definitions

  1. A useless waste of time resulting from a deception.

    • The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night.
    • Argentine defender Martinez, normally so reliable and combative, was taken apart, especially when Salah led him a merry dance to set up Gakpo to settle the game with Liverpool's third five minutes after half-time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for merry dance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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