From the classic Warner Brothers cartoon One Froggy Evening, featuring a dancing and singing Michigan J. Frog that just croaks when anyone other than its agent is present. Describes an application which runs fine when the development team are running it, but crashes when demoed to clients. Example: I thought the program was robust enough to beta, but it turned out to be a dancing toad.
DANCING TOAD
Meaning of DANCING TOAD in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012