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Animate dandy, removing jacket while making jerky foot movements, being full of beans (5,3,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alive and kicking

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'full of beans' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'animate dandy removing jacket while making jerky foot movements being' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'animate' could be 'alive' (synonyms) and 'alive' is found in the answer.
'being' could be 'king' (king is a kind of being) and 'king' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for alive and kicking that I've seen before include "hardly subdued" , "Very active" , "Animated" , "full of vigour" , "Strong" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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