{"id":71909,"date":"2019-08-30T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71909"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:12:25","slug":"foot-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/foot-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word<strong> &#8216;foot&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch somebody on the wrong foot<\/strong> (If somebody catches you on the wrong foot, you are caught when you least expect it.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upon entering the examination hall, I found John cheating and caught him on the wrong foot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Let the grass grow under one\u2019s feet<\/strong> (procrastinate; delay in getting something done)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will never finish any work in time if you let the grass grow under your feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Put one\u2019s best foot forward<\/strong> (do one\u2019s best)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I hope to put my best foot forward during the interview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Foot the bill (pay the bill)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He footed the bill for the party arranged by his brother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Put your foot down (insist; be firm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was keen on quitting the job but his mother put her foot down and said that he shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put one\u2019s foot in the mouth<\/strong> (say something that causes trouble or embarrassment)<\/p>\n<p>Every time he opens his mouth, he manages to put his foot in it. (= Whenever he says something he manages to say the wrong thing and causes embarrassment.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have one foot in the grave<\/strong> (be very old and near death)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word &#8216;foot&#8217;. Catch somebody on the wrong foot (If somebody catches&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,1021,1022],"class_list":["post-71909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-foot-idioms","tag-idioms-with-foot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71910,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909\/revisions\/71910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}