Tripping the light fantastic

In his lyric poem, L'Allegro, John Milton wrote:

"Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe"

from which we get the saying to trip the light fantastic as an extravagant way of describing dancing.

Of course, Milton's use of the word 'trip' was not to stumble as we might read it now. However, judging by the range of dance-related injuries sported by a number of delegates this morning it appears that some used the modern meaning at last night's Ceilidh! As to whether the collective moves made on the dance floor were fantastic, this blogger cannot deny that at least one of the following definitions of the word applies:

1. excellent: extraordinarily good
2. bizarre: extremely strange in appearance
3. incredible: apparently impossible but real or true
4. unlikely: unusual and unlikely to be successful
5. enormous: much larger than is usual, expected, or desirable
6. imaginary: existing only in the imagination