shucking and jiving

"It's not my job to go around shucking and jiving until everyone realizes what a nice person I am," she said.

It's time that our party stop shucking and jiving and get down to the real thing."

She is still shucking and jiving when she is in the public eye.

I went back to shucking and jiving.

Shucking and jiving, smiling and glad-handing.

The company would not answer questions from me, but if they came from her they might hesitate about shucking and jiving a member of the US Congress.

For the crews, survival depends on split-second midair gyrations - "shucking and jiving" in fighter-pilot lingo - to shake a missile.

Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a slang term for the behavior of joking and acting evasively.

He felt like moving; felt like slipping and sliding, hipping and bopping, shucking and jiving, scratching his scratches and cracking his crackers.

Chapter Twenty Adana, Van, Christ It Sounds the Same with a Turkish Accent Meanwhile I was shucking and jiving.

"Shucking and jiving," he corrects with an upraised finger, by which he means teasing, or "talking a lot of trash" with customers, especially the "pretty ladies," as they passed by his shucking station.

It was his enormous success, Mr. Watkins argues, that made Perry the focus of so much condemnation, while hundreds of other black performers, then and now, had gotten away with shucking and jiving their way through more demeaning stereotypes.

Through all the years that the University of Miami football team was shucking and jiving and taunting and flaunting its way to dominance, there was one constant: at home in the Orange Bowl at night, the Hurricanes were all but invincible.

Cuomo received criticism from some for his use of the phrase, with Roland Martin of CNN stating that ""Shucking and jiving" have long been words used as a negative assessment of African Americans, along the lines of a "foot shufflin' Negro.""