Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Skilful Manoeuvring's a book by a former Labour leader ", 8 letters:
footwork

Alternative clues for the word footwork

Word definitions for footwork in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the manner of using the feet skillful maneuvering or dealing; "she needs some fancy footwork to cover all those lies"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Footwork is a martial arts and combat sports term for the general usage of the legs and feet in stand-up fighting . Footwork involves keeping balance, closing or furthering the distance, controlling spatial positioning, and/or creating additional momentum ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES fancy footwork (= skill at making deals ) ▪ Negotiating a deal can take some fancy footwork . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE fancy ▪ He wasn't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas. good ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement.

Usage examples of footwork.

She was quite agile in low-g footwork and she left Bigfoot far behind.

The helicopters had to do some fancy footwork to avoid the erratic maneuvers of the pilotless Bronco as it pulled into a series of chandelles and lazy-eights over the battlefield.

Similarly, in the context of bosonic string theory, physicists tried all sorts of fancy footwork to make sense of the bizarre prediction of a tachyon vibrational pattern, but to no avail.

He took Hatty out onto the Arizona practice field, fed him grounders, and tried to teach him footwork.

Having dealt with Willa Dount, I doubt the footwork will do any good, but I want to try.

Dudley Smith walked into the dining alcove and tapped the filing boxes and typewriters with his spit-shined brogues--uncharacteristically idle footwork.

By the second half of the 1980s, cosmic structures were being discovered and mapped that could never have come into being since the time of the Big Bang, whatever the inhomogeneities at the beginning or fast footwork in the first few moments to smooth out the background picture.

I did not trust all of this fancy footwork on his/her part, and Kwannon lost something of her enchantment for me with this smattering of history and anthropology.

The Reverend St john's having to make with some fancy footwork to keep his balance up there on the moral high ground, so he coughed us up a list pretty quick.

Even Skinny resorted to fancy footwork and I had three narrow squeaks.

For club regulars, windblown hair was an exotic diversion from leaden footwork and half-hearted pelvic thrusts.

With nimble footwork he kept the trunk between Anna and himself, until at last she stopped, gasping and redfaced, and panted at him, Come out, you yellow-bellied black-faced apology for a blue-testicled baboon!