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FEET don’t just help you to walk and see your world; they also add colour to your language. Feel/find one’s feet: begin to show one’s abilities or become self confident; become familiar with a new place or situation. The new student is a bit shy but I am sure things will change once he has found his feet. Get cold feet: suddenly become too frightened to do something one had planned, especially something important like getting married. I have signed up for a course in rock climbing but now that the time has come to do it, I am getting cold feet. Get back on one’s feet: recover after a period of difficulty, failure, financial worry etc. Once I am back on my feet I am going to make my business partner pay for having cheated me. Pull the carpet /rug (out) from under someone’s feet: stop giving one’s help or support suddenly and unexpectedly I depend on my brother to fund my enterprise and if he decides to pull the carpet from under my feet, I shall be forced to shut shop. Rush/run someone off his/her feet: have to work very hard or very fast. I have been rushed off my feet all day preparing for the party that I am throwing for my friends this evening. Stand on one’s own (two) feet: be independent and provide oneself with all the things that one needs to live without having to ask anyone else for help. When her husband left her, she decided that she would not ask anyone for help and would stand on her own feet. (Reference: Cambridge International
Dictionary of Idioms) |
