take the weight off your feet/legs
If you take the weight off your feet/legs, you sit down, especially after standing or walking for a long time:
You must be exhausted after all that shopping - sit down and take the weight off your feet!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand aside
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- weight
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