off one's feet
Example Sentences
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A favorite practice of her British mother, the lie-down is just what it sounds like: a short stint off one’s feet.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2024
The opening of one of the complimentary odes, "Celebrate this festival," fairly carries one off one's feet with the excess of jubilation in the rollicking rhythm and living melody of it.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
There are moments of madness, moments that carry one off one's feet, which come alike to the slave and his master.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
The fine, toil-worn faces of man and wife, in Golden-Wedding and Four-generations groups in local newspapers, show a thing before which one puts off the shoes from off one’s feet.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
Don't think that it sounds vain, but people have such a habit of almost carrying one off one's feet.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
