foot it

"We’re shooting ourselves in the foot… It won’t deter poor performing students but it will deter high performing students who have options," he wrote on X.

No. I didn't touch him with the studs or even the foot, it was my ankle.

"Instead, there is a shadow because of allegations of bad behaviour behind the scenes. And now the BBC is finding itself on the back foot. It’s making changes today."

“With all that fur, and the foot, it looks totally like a bear.”

If the first minister is politically on the back foot, it's a more difficult experience.