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on the wrong foot
Idioms and Phrases
see on the right foot .Example Sentences
Neither is keen on it, and they get off on the wrong foot.
The first portion of Colin Jost’s 2024 Paris Olympics experience started off on the wrong foot — his left one, specifically.
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.”
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.
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
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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