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The term "footloose" means free to travel, and by extension free from responsibilities. It is commonly encountered in the archaic idiom "footloose and fancy free," or "free to travel and not tied down by romantic attachment." The song lyric you're quoting is...well, it's a song lyric, which means it doesn't have to make perfect grammatical sense.
Footloose: (of a commercial, industrial, or financial operation) unrestricted in its location or field of operations and able to respond to fluctuations in the market. "modern factories are largely footloose". Share. Improve this answer. Follow. answered Feb 15, 2017 at 15:20.
I listened to the song myself. The lyrics move very fast — this line is almost in double-time — so it’s understandable that it was transcribed incorrectly. My interpretation is: Teenagers!! Now I know why the wild eat their young.
Here the "light fandango" refers to the normal dance moves. The speaker in the lyrics skipped the normal moves with his partner. 3a: to pass over or omit an interval, item, or step. I'm not entirely sure if the second line is an idiom or not.
The difference between them would depend on context, but generally: To my ear, the first describes something, like a time, an event or a place.
We use 's with singular nouns. For example, " my son's toys " will be "the toys that belong to my son". We use only an apostrophe (') after plural nouns that end in -s: " my sons' toys " means that I have more than one son and these are their toys. We use 's for possession with the other plural nouns. For example: " my children's toys; women's ...
Having said that, I think there is a tinge of racism to not accept e.g. "Myself X" as proper English. My reason for this is no one says that calling a friend "mate" or "dude" is annoying or wrong english.
@MichaelHarvey I wish private messaging was a thing on Stack Exchange but it's not, and we're veering off-topic. James is probably annoyed by all these pings. Sorry James! P.S I think the painting was the inspiration for the Italian classic 50s song better known as "Volare", Nel blu, dipinto di blu –
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Some lyrics to that song are: You want me, I want you, baby. My sugarboo, I'm levitating. The milky way, we're renegading (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) This is a slang combination of boo and sugar, both terms which indicate someone you care about in a romantic way -- lover, girlfriend/boyfriend, etc. This means the same thing.