Anyone who is used to a particular genre of dance picks up the language eventually. But while the genre is new, and even when the dance is new, it helps to get a pithy description.

In Irish Set (social square dancing not Riverdance) there are moves that have good descriptions like "wheelbarrow" - very visual.
But some get shortened for the cognoscenti, and confuse.
My problem is that a good mnemonic may be discarded because of association, when it would help newbies to visualise. They help me anyway.
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A move in the dance "Moate" they liken to St Brigid's Cross" - which is helpful (for women) if you know St Brigid*. But men start differently, the first part being more like a swastika, and most people know what that is. Hence the reluctance to give newbie men a valuable visual clue.
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In the dance "Carrowbeg" there is a version of "strip the willow square" which I dub "Pythagorian" because the sequence is: "1)adjacent, 2)opposite and 3)a longer swing (hypotenuse) thence to the remaining couple". But Math(s) is difficult innit! Not IMHO.
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I always explain a normal "Strip the Willow" for newbies as:
"think double helix", and the French call it "tire-bouchon" - corkscrew. How visual are those?

* famed for turning water into beer!
YouTube, Moate - Figure 4 @ 5 minutes
Youtube, Carrowbeg Figure 4

Those familiar with English/Scottish Ceilidh, Contra, Playford and Barn Dancing where we repeat 5/6 times - Irish Set changes subtly each set, and not always logically!

I guess there are linear peeps, and visual peeps and I am the latter.