off one's feet

A favorite practice of her British mother, the lie-down is just what it sounds like: a short stint off one’s feet.

As one 22-year-old Sanders supporter told me in New Hampshire: Bernie rallies are like being swept off one’s feet for the revolution; Clinton’s are like meetings with a financial planner.

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.

"But"—Father Anton was quite bewildered—one was literally carried off one's feet—were they all alike, these Americans!

For me, the fun began before the boots were off one's feet; the muffled foot-falls, the thin sound of the fountain, even the spent swathed forms upon the couches, and the whole clean, warm, idle atmosphere, were so much unction to my simpler soul.