| 单词 | to have one's foot on native heath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have one's foot on (one's) native heath c. to have one's foot on (one's) native heath and variants: to be on home ground, esp. in one's place of birth; (in extended use) to be at home in a place or situation, to be on familiar territory. Cf. native heath n. at Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 191 Do not Master or Campbell me—my foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xiv. 210 She loved to dance, she felt that her foot was on her native heath in a ball-room. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiv. 392 The Avery scholarship was in English, and Anne felt that here her foot was on native heath. 1912 G. W. E. Russell Afterthoughts 158 In Loamshire ‘my foot is on my native heath’, and I have been renewing my youth by contact with my early friends. 1949 H. Wilcox Six Moons in Sulawesi xv. 320 His foot was on his native heath, whereas I was not yet in training after seven years of army service during which very little walking and no climbing had been possible. < as lemmas |
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