shaking a leg

Angela Carter’s essays, collected in “Shaking a Leg,” were a treat.

I’m talking about “Forbidden Broadway,” Gerard Alessandrini’s 37-year-old satirical revue, which is shaking a leg with renewed vigor at the Triad Theater.

Paul Ryan's probably in there shaking a leg next to a fireplace, and you should be too.

He is seated at a corner table in the cavernous breakfast room of the Pierre hotel, across the street from Central Park, shaking a leg nervously and whispering in a conspiratorial hush.

Even church founder Joseph Smith was known to host dance parties at his house, sometimes lasting till the morning, and many of those outside the fold were astonished by the Mormon proclivity for shaking a leg.