cut a rug
To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century.
Young-generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug.
rug
UK /ɹʌɡ/ US /ɹʌɡ/
noun 6verb 3
Definitions
noun
1
A partial covering for a floor.
2
A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
3
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.
4
A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
5
A person wearing a rug.
verb
1
To cover with a rug.
It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
2
To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
“this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”
3
Clipping of rug pull
noun
1
short form of Rugbeian
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