fox-trot
- n a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
- Securing your base and then moving to the center is the fundamental move of politics, like the basic steps of the fox-trot.
- But as I got to know her, I found myself falling in love with her quick mind, offbeat sense of humor and agility on the dance floor, where I thought I had mastered the fox-trot.
- Fast fox-trot and tango were won by a red-cheeked Scot with a pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow.