Definition
To relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases.
In Context
- ""Therefore he has a right, for a change, to 'kick up his heels?""
- "Everybody laughed, for he was a clumsy and comical beast to be decorated with roses and daisies. But the lady is proud of him, and now that pampered donkey has nothing to do but pull her Bath chair about, when she is at Holly Lodge, and kick up his heels on a clover pasture."
- "With a sum like that the fellow might easily kick up his heels, as the saying is, and run away, not only out of the village, but even out of the District."