tickle the ivories
Verb
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Verb
tickle the ivories
- (idiomatic) To play the piano.
- 1984 June 9, Ben A. Franklin, "Mencken Monument Spurs ‘Frenzied Piffle’ ↗," New York Times (retrieved 14 Nov 2016):
- Mencken, more a music lover than a musician, sometimes tickled the ivories in a repertory of Beethoven, Bach, Strauss and W. C. Handy.
- 1984 June 9, Ben A. Franklin, "Mencken Monument Spurs ‘Frenzied Piffle’ ↗," New York Times (retrieved 14 Nov 2016):
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