grand right and left

American  

noun

1. a figure called in square dancing in which partners face each other, forming a small circle, and then advance around the circle by extending alternating right and left hands to pull past each new person until they reach their partners again.

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Example Sentences

Serving the comic spirit in the way he likes best, Kronenberger plans to write comic novels on the order of his Grand Right and Left and recent A Month of Sundays.

From Time Magazine Archive

From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this point in Grand Right and Left, complications start running wild.

From Time Magazine Archive

It invariably takes coaxing, cajoling, insisting, to get them started, and then they get going, and we dance and swing our partners and grand right and left on the dirt floor, a helpful crowd of bystanders clapping their hands, whistling and singing in syncopated rhythm.

From Project Gutenberg

And say, it was a grand right and left that she'd framed up.

From Project Gutenberg