dancing partner
3
2.5
- noun
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pareja de baile
- BBC's Strictly Come Dancing kept me warm at the weekend, or rather Kimberley Walsh of Girls Aloud and her dancing partner Pasha Kovalev put a smile on my face.
If you get caught kissing your dance partner, this is what will happen.
- If you get caught kissing your dance partner, this is what will happen.
- Drilling is a cooperative venture where you work as dance partners, complementing each other's movement.
- Is CJ mean that dad wasn't your dance partner, Dad wasn't the love of your life?
- But that's what makes us beautiful dance partners.
Examples
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Sign read "Pleasureland. Dancing partners wanted."
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Which reminds me, if you're a song-and-dance man... ...and you've spent some time in pictures... ...inevitably, some interviewer will ask: "Who was your favorite dancing partner?
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My two favorite dancing partners.
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I have another dancing partner for you.
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Those who had brought dancing partners were having a fine time.
Fiction book (1997) -
Our primary dancing partner is Dr. Page Talbott, chief curator.
Academic text (2004) -
They're perfectly respectable dining and dancing partners.
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Johanna rejoined Sirkka, who was left alone, as all of the young waitresses had found dancing partners with whom they stayed chatting.
Fiction book (1992) -
At the dance studio, I asked Maria to be my dancing partner for the class.
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During the competition, she felt nervous as she waited for her dancing partner to arrive.
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
dancing + partner
The meaning 'a person with whom one dances as a pair' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dancing' (engaging in dance) + 'partner' (a person who partners with another). This is a straightforward noun + noun/adjective+noun combination following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Dancing partner comes from the clear picture of two people on a dance floor: one person is dancing and the other is the partner who moves with them. So, it means 'a person with whom one dances'.