Gumboot dance

🇿🇦 South Africa
Added August 02, 2025
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A bit of humor: gumboot dancing was used by miners to communicate. When someone says their wallet is doing a gumboot dance, they mean it's making noise with coins – implying they only have coins left.
"My wallet is light, just coins jingling – it's performing a gumboot dance in my pocket. (English, meaning "My wallet is nearly empty, just coins jingling in my pocket.")"
by Khulekani Dladla August 02, 2025
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