| 单词 | feet foremost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeet foremost (a) feet foremost: = feet first at Phrases 1g(b) (in both senses). Now somewhat rare.Feet first became the more common term from the early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. x. 259 The descendant..shoves himself Feet foremost into the cave. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos I. iv. 228 He came out feet foremost. 1752 Adventures of Valet I. x. 237 The luckless Pair continued descending..into the Brook..; they went in Feet foremost. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 384 Hans, Morton and myself crawled feet-foremost into our buffalo-bag. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xli. 454 We are going to have a regular battle... Some of us will go home feet foremost to-day. 1910 J. Masefield Trag. Pompey the Great (1914) 12 You'll come to a dumb thing, tied in a sheet, carried out foot-foremost. 1972 G. Wolfe Fifth Head of Cerberus 78 Carefully he sat..and then, feet foremost as a man lets himself into a lower place, climbed into [the gorge of] Thunder Always. < as lemmas |
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