wild goose chase
the foxtrot
Though foxes trot in that confident, yet diffident way of theirs, alert to danger and aware that they can usually handle it, the foxtrot is not named after foxes that trot¹.
And though fox fur is that unique colour – a dull, yet bright red, as far as I know² there is no colour named after this wily, cunning beast. There is Amber, Ginger, Dutch Orange, Minium. Rust comes close, but it is not quite the rich colour of the fox.
Not quite red, not orange, not pink, but a mixture of them all. Not doing a foxtrot, but trotting in such a way as only a fox can do.
¹ According to Wikipedia, it was a chap named Harry Fox.
² I don’t claim to be an expert – I’ve simply been reading a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Colour.
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