| 单词 | under a person's feet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder a person's feet (b) under a person's feet: in a person's way; continually in a person's presence so as to become an annoyance or obstruction. Cf. underfoot adv. 5. ΚΠ 1848 O. S. Fowler Maternity iii. 125 I am worn down with labor by day, and watching by night, and have squalling children always under my feet. 1894 Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 102/2 She will marry her Goro, and then he will be so constantly under my feet that I shall end by installing him as my gardener for life. 1933 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Z i. 5 I recall dimly getting under father's feet as a child, pestering him for the goriest details of the crimes he was investigating. 1988 G. McCaughrean Pack of Lies ii. 11 Her mother smiled wanly. ‘He's been no trouble at all. Really. He hasn't been under my feet or anything.’ 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xvi. 167 Nikolai could not find a suitable job in Luhansk and mooched around the flat writing poems and getting under everyone's feet. < as lemmas |
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