Lime Lingo: Dance Top In Mud

• Dance top in mud (phr): Try something without chance of success; be frustrated by trying to do something in too difficult a situation. (From impossibility of making a top spin in mud) => spin top in mud.

• You people want to build a little India of your own in Trinidad. You are trying to dance top in mud. It can not be done.  The difficulty lies in the fact that you are too much of a majority to assimilate, too much of a minority to dominate (Naipaul 1976:92)

 

 Trini for an alphabetical listing of all the slangs.

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Source: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago by Lise Winer

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