footing

Both laws stress wider economic benefits but the older Scottish law is also guided by an EU directive to treat continental firms on an equal footing.

Unlike last year, when the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers had trouble finding their footing on a playing surface designed for soccer, the grass held up this time.

As in, “you shouldn’t use this ladder. Like, it doesn’t have a footing thing. And I was like, ‘No, it’s really good.‘”

Instead, the company used “only insufficient concrete footings,” the lawyers said in their filing.

Though not a stumble by most people’s measure, Swift doesn’t like her footing to be unstable.