off one's feet
Example Sentences
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A favorite practice of her British mother, the lie-down is just what it sounds like: a short stint off one’s feet.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2024
Don't think that it sounds vain, but people have such a habit of almost carrying one off one's feet.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
The fine, toil-worn faces of man and wife, in Golden-Wedding and Four-generations groups in local newspapers, show a thing before which one puts off the shoes from off one’s feet.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
I think one has a little natural nervousness at being carried off one's feet.
From The Awkward Age by James, Henry
Next day we descended into a coal-mine; it was quite an odd sensation to be taken off one's feet and dropped down into darkness by the bucket.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
