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on the wrong foot



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Idioms and Phrases

see on the right foot .
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Example Sentences

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Neither is keen on it, and they get off on the wrong foot.

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The first portion of Colin Jost’s 2024 Paris Olympics experience started off on the wrong foot — his left one, specifically.

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Don’t invest your hopes in a match that starts off on the wrong foot, she said: “That’s part of decluttering from the very start.”

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They got off on the wrong foot in a game at Green Bay in 1965, when Shula’s Colts lost on a field goal that sailed over one of the uprights.

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Trump started off on the wrong foot with China when he took a congratulatory call on his 2016 election victory from the president of Taiwan, angering the government in Beijing, which opposes any official contact between Taiwan and foreign governments.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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