10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUT ONE'S FEET UP»
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put one's feet up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
put one's feet up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook
put one's feet up to sit or lie down and elevate one's feet; to relax 0 Put your feet
up for awhile. It might help you feel better. 0 I am so tired I just can't wait to get
home and put my feet up. put one's foot down to disallow or stop some action; ...
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put one's feet up ( P ) <A§, (After lunch. I'd like to put my feet up for half an
hour. to put one's foot down 1. $Bf& 2.mimi"] > n-<\mm ; mytmm to put one's foot in
it ffl T K It^ jjg ; HI T At$ (I'm afraid I put my foot in it when I asked if your father ...
3
Chambers Pocket Dictionary
on foot walking. — put one's best foot forward to set off with determination. — put
one's feet up to take a rest. — put one's foot down to be firm about something. —
put one's foot in it (coll) to say or do something embarrassingly silly or tactless.
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... FALL ON ONE's FEET; GET ONE's FEET WET; GET THE LEAD OUT (OF
ONE's FEET); GET TO ONE's FEET; HOLD sOMEONE's FEET TO THE FIRE; OFF
sOMEONE's FEET; ON ONE's FEET; PUT ONE's FEET UP; sHAKE THE DUsT
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Put one's feet up Rest with one's feet in a horizontal position. One of the
exercises he usually practised was to put his feet up. Put one's foot in it Say or do
something wrong or stupid. blunder His mother kept a watch over him, whenever
there ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
on foot walking, not using transport They went on foot to the village. put one's feet
up rest or relax in a chair or on a bed Now that my work is over I can put my feet
up. rush/run somebody (clean) off his feet make somebody work very hard or ...
... know she won V do anything silly. have two left feet see left. put one's feet up to
take a rest by lying down or sitting with one's feet supported on something: / look
forward to getting home and putting my feet up. sit at (someone's) feet see 111.
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... I know she won't do anything silly. have two left feet see left put one's feet up to
take a rest by lying down or sitting with one's feet supported on something: / look
forward to getting home and putting my feet up. sit at (someone's) feet see 111.
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Chambers concise dictionary
... feet to stand up. have one's feet on the ground to have plenty of common sense
, have the ball at one's feet to be in control of things, with many opportunities
ahead, put one's feet up to take a rest, under one's feet in one's way; hindering
one.
... fault have both feet on the ground: be sensible have a foot in both camps: have
an interest in two different sides without a commitment to either have a foot in the
grave: be very old keep one's feet: keep one's balance put one's feet up: rest or ...
