English - Turkish
Definition of soft-shoe in English Turkish dictionary
- yumuşak ayakkabı
English - English
Definition of soft-shoe in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of soft shoe
- tap dancing wearing soft-soled shoes
- Casual, low-key, easy-going
Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side.
- Of or pertaining to this kind of dancing
- A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone
Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?.
- To perform a dance of this kind
- A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville
Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.
- softshoe
- Alternative spelling of soft shoe