20. damp one's ardour, to (тж. to damp the ardour of one) стримувати свій або чийсь запал.

21. Damp one's spirits, to див. С-259.

22. damp squib, а жарт, що не вдався, не мав успіху; див. тж. G-1639.

23. Damp the ardour of one, to див. D-20.

24. Damp the spirits of one, to див. С-259,

25. dance after one's pipe (або piping, tune, whistle), to див. D-37.

26. dance attendance (on або upon), to 1) залицятися до когось, бігати за кимсь [за старим англійським, звичаєм, на весіллі молода повинна була танцювати з кожним гостем, який запрошував її];

James is dancing attendance upon Miss Lowther {W. Thackeray).

2) бути завжди готовим до послуг, gg ходити па задніх лапках;

І suppose all the standbys will be there — Bliss Bridge, Mr. Knowlcs, Mr. Cross —dancing attend­ance on you? (Th. Dreiser).

3) довго ждати;

You appear to think it the proper thing for us to dance attendance for half an hour at your door... (E. Voynich).

27. dance barefoot, to заст. залишитися старою дівою (ззич. кажуть про старшу се­ стру після одруження молодшої) [шекспі- рівський вираз; The Taming of the Shrew, д.П,сц. 1].

28. dance for joy, to стрибати, танцювати від радості; див. тж. J-139;

...It was all so delightful, that I really believe if 1 had been by myself I could have danced for joy like a child (W. Collins).

29. dance (або march) in a net, to заст. робити щось таємно, приховано; залиши­ тися непоміченим.

30. dance macabre (тж. macabre dance) танець смерті [етим, фр. danse macabre];

Her loneliness without love. These and a hundred related thoughts dancing a fantastic, macabre men­tal dance before her (Th. Dreiser).

31. dance on (або upon) air (або nothing), to [тж. заст. to cut a caper upon nothing; заст. to dance the Tyburn jig; заст. to mount a ladder; заст. to ride a horse that was foal­ ed of an acorn; злод. жарг. to kick the clouds (або wind); злод. жарг. to stretch hemp] закінчити життя на шибениці, бути повіше­ ним [Tyburn місце прилюдних страт у Лон­ доні до 1783 р.]; див. тж. В-2198;

They mayn't hang me, perhaps; because the moral effect of the Devil's Disciple dancing on nothing wouldn't help them (B. Shaw).

32. dance on (або upon) a tight rope, to

[тж. to dance on a volcano; to monkey with a buzz saw; to jest (або play) with edge (або edged) tools; to play (або trifle) with fire; to tread on dangerous ground; to play with matches; амер. to rock the boat] необе­режно поводитися, наражати на небезпеку, с^ жартувати з вогнем;

І never knew one of these legerdemain fellows, who pass their life, as one may say, in dancing upon a tight rope, but what they came at length to caper at the end of one (W. Scott).

Nevertheless, her underlying thought in connec­tion with all this, in so far as Clyde and his great passion for her was concerned — and hers for him— was that she was indeed trifling with fire and perhaps social disgrace into the bargain (Th. Drei­ser).

He well knew more sharply to-day than ever before that he was treading on dangerous ground (Th. Dreiser).

We are the old colonial peoples, Pyll, but we've learned a bit of reality, we've learned not to play with matches (M. & M., June, 1956),

You ask him to fight for something a little bit different and he begins to scream about the CIO. Don't rock the boat. lie says, don't shake me up... (Л. Saxton).