banshee

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Start date Feb 1, 2013

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GUEST2008

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Feb 1, 2013

#1

Hi

What does it mean to "dance like a banshee"? Maybe dance very vigorously?

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Rover_KE

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Feb 1, 2013

#2

You wail like a banshee.

A banshee doesn't dance.

Rover

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BobK

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Feb 1, 2013

#3

:up: But I think the OP's guess was right, in that the writer probabky meant 'dance in an abandoned way'.

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