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.
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)
Though profound melancholy seems to be the dominant note in Russian music and art, yet along with the dramatic gloom go also reckless hilarity and boisterous humor, which often whirl one off one's feet.
From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee
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)
