| 单词 | not to put a foot right |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to put a foot right k. to put a foot wrong: to make a mistake. Chiefly in negative constructions, as not (or never) to put a foot wrong: to make no mistakes. Also not to put a foot right: to make many mistakes. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > make no mistakes not (or never) to put a foot wrong1939 1915 Weekly Irish Times 20 Nov. 2/4 We neither of us seemed able to put a foot right. 1939 A. G. Macdonell Flight from Lady iv. 37 Look at our own Marlborough. Not once did he put a foot wrong in the whole of his long and intricate campaigns. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway iv. 108 His superiors could rest content that Mr. Symes would never put a foot wrong. 1961 H. Nicolson Let. 1 June (1968) III. 395 The Americans..blame..the ‘diplomatists’, meaning thereby their intelligence services. ‘Why can't we put a foot right?’ they wail. 1999 Vanity Fair Oct. 120/1 It's a fairly short story, but it seems longer..because the female character just cannot put a foot right. 2012 Canberra Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. a4 The royal couple never put a foot wrong in the style stakes. < as lemmas |
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