kick up one's heels
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kick up one's heels
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- To dance. Above the peals of laughter with which the words were received, rose Jake's voice, "Come on, ole fiddler, play somefin a nigger kin kick up his heels to; what's de use of singing after dat fashion; dis aint no meetin."
- To relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases. "Therefore he has a right, for a change, to 'kick up his heels?"
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up, one's, heels. If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly.
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