put on one's dancing shoes
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editput on one's dancing shoes (third-person singular simple present puts on one's dancing shoes, present participle putting on one's dancing shoes, simple past and past participle put on one's dancing shoes)
- (idiomatic) To prepare for celebration or rejoicing; to put oneself in a positive frame of mind.
- 1995, J. Richard Middleton, Brian J. Walsh, Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age, page 120:
- But we can at least begin to put on our dancing shoes as we get ready to celebrate the good news of Genesis 1.
- 2004, Sharon Kay Riddle, Warring at the Window, page 114:
- This is what allows us to put on our dancing shoes when others are moping and whining.
- 2011, Franklin T. Gibbs, The Shocking Truths about Heaven, Hell and Your Birthright Blessing, page 17:
- Well, you can put on your dancing shoes because sicknesses, diseases and abnormalities will never be found in heaven.