get off on the wrong foot

 

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Meaning: If you get off on the wrong foot, you start something poorly, or begin with a mistake.

For example:

  • I got off on the wrong foot in my new job when I forgot to pass on an important message to the boss.

  • Helen got off on the wrong foot in her performance when she forgot the first few words of the song.

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  • Dear Nadira & Nafis thanks a lot for the nice idioms.

    Its very useful. I hope I would remember to use then in the future ^_^

    • Rabab

       

      Practice  make's man perfect  :))))

  • Idiom Definitions for 'Come to a pretty pass'


    If something has come to a pretty pass, then it is in a difficult, unfavourable or negative situation.

  • Idiom of the day:

    Quiet as a mouse


    • Sweet Nafis

      Wow  thou roughly enjoyed  listening to the idiom. Quiet as a mouse

       

      and the examples  too  thank you :)

    • Oh, I can't help but smile when you whisper...quite as a mouse.:)

      Thanks for sharing...

    • See dear Mayumi?! to learn an idiom, I have to do a funny thing so that I can learn it!! Ahhh!

  • Wear the trousers


    • Ahh, now I know:)

      In our country, when a man is being under controlled of a woman, we call him as "under de saya. Saya means long skirt, usually wore by women in the past.

    • ohhh..interesting dear Mayumi!! in English they say wear the trousers...
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