kick up one's heels

Meaning: (figuratively)Todance.1852,Mary Henderson Eastman, chapter XI, inAunt Phillis's Cabin:Above the peals of laughter with which the words were received, rose Jake's voice, "Come on, ole fiddler, play somefin a nigger kinkick up his heelsto; what's de use of singing after dat fashion; dis aint no meetin."1881,James Greenwood,Low-Life Deeps, Chapter 16: A Cockney Holiday:He does not get on so well in the evening and night time, when his youthful audience has dispersed, and has been replaced by adults of the tag-rag and draggle-tail breed who have no taste for any tunes but those they can vigorouslykick up their heelsto,[…].; (idiomatic)Torelax; to enjoy oneself; to do as onepleases.1904,Henry James, chapter XVI, inThe Golden Bowl:"Therefore he has a right, for a change, to 'kick up his heels?"1912,Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, chapter XII, inGreyfriar's Bobby:Everybody laughed, for he was a clumsy and comical beast to be decorated with roses and daisies. But the lady is proud of him, and now that pampered donkey has nothing to do but pull her Bath chair about, when she is at Holly Lodge, andkick up his heelson a clover pasture.1916,Vladimir Korolenko, translated by Marian Fell,The Day of Atonement:With a sum like that the fellow might easilykick up his heels, as the saying is, and run away, not only out of the village, but even out of the District.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seekick,‎up,‎one's,‎heels.If a swimmerkicks up his heelsand splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly.

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