dance attendance

Meanings:

1.
British EnglishGeneral Englishformalidiomaticarchaic
- To wait on someone attentively and submissively in order to gain favor or advantages; to court someone with obsequious service.
- To perform constant or assiduous attention to another person, often in a servile or flattering manner.

EN: You'll be worn to a thread, with me away, the clinic to run, and Dame Sybil Thorndike to dance attendance on.
ES: Tendrá que coger las riendas, conmigo fuera, el trabajo de la clínica y la asistencia a la fiesta de la señora Sybil Thorndike.
EN: I dance attendance here.
ES: Espero a que me atiendan.
EN: Had to turn myself inside out, dance attendance on the kid like a monkey on a stick... just so she'd write me in as guardian for the boy.
ES: Tuve que cambiar totalmente, bailar... ¿crees que iba a dejar todo eso simplemente porque tú decidiste...
EN: Now, my Lord Mayor, I dance attendance here.
ES: Milord Corregidor, temo que me he equivocado.