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Idioms: our foot - feet - English lesson

Our feet are everywhere!

Saying that, I mean that many expressions are

mentioning them! Some of them are quite unexpected...

We should, at least, understand them...

To be on an equal footing To get one's foot in the door

To be on one's feet all day

To be footloose: not confined by any responsibilities.

To be on an equal footing with sb: in an equal situation

To catch sb on the wrong foot

To get one's foot in the door

To have one foot in the grave

To lose one's foothold

To put one's best foot foremost: to try as hard as you can

To set foot somewhere

To wait on sb hand and foot: to serve someone

To stamp one's foot: to strike with a forceful, strong, downward movement or push of the foot.

To start off on the wrong foot

To leave a place feet first: on a stretcher or in a coffin: dead.

The shoe is on the other foot: the situation is reversed

To wait on somebody hand and foot The shoe is on the other foot

A footboard

A footbridge

A footrest

A footwarmer

From head to foot

To be club-footed

To have blistered feet

A blistered foot To have two left feet

To be six-feet under

To be swept off one's feet

To drag one's feet

To land on one's feet

To get cold feet

To have two left feet

To have a foot in both camps

To put one's foot down

To put one's feet up

To refuse flat-footed

To put one's feet up

- My foot has gone to sleep!

- My foot!

- A handsome shoe often pinches the foot!

- The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot

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1. 'Don’t let Peter carry these expensive glasses… and might stumble.'

2. 'I was going to try bungee jumping, but as I , Vince went and said it was great.'

3. 'No need , you must go to the dentist’s and you know that perfectly well.'

4. No matter how difficult it is, Jack will always … He’s a clever boy.

5. The little girl was and refusing to take her medicine.

6. Pam and Paul when they first met, but now they are very close and will certainly get married soon.

7. 'I wonder how you’d react if … Would you be as tolerant? I’m sure you wouldn’t.'

8. 'I was drenched after getting caught in a sudden downpour.'

9. The kids started making more and more noise while Dad was trying to write his report…He had to to get silence.

10. ' I’m so tired that my only wish is to till I go to sleep peacefully. '

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