hands-all-round

Updated: May 6, 2025

His only voluntary terpsichorean effort at a party was the march to supper; and the only steps he ever took with anything like success were during the promenade in the lancers. In "hands-all-round" he invariably started with the wrong hand; and if in the set there were girls big enough to wear long dresses, he never failed to tear such out at the gathers.

Laurence Hutton - A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs