Yesterday I tried a couple of the Apple Fitness+ dance classes. I danced like someone who has checked really carefully that no-one is looking, I winged it a lot of the time, and I closed my rings. I can’t dance for toffee, but I had fun.

@bsag what about lemon sherbet?

@pratik @cn 😁 “can’t do x for toffee” means that you are really bad at x: definition. No idea where it comes from! Lemon sherbet would work just as well 😉

@bsag I got that but why toffee? Who’s making you dance for toffees? 😀

@pratik 🤣 No idea! Like many idioms, I’ve never really thought about the origin of it. I’ll have to see if I can find out.

@pratik Having said that, there are a lot of things I would do for toffee 😂

@bsag Me too! Searched, but found only “old-fashioned, informal, British English.”

@odd It’s a mystery 🤷‍♀️