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单词 to fix the foot or footing
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to fix the foot or footing
b. to fix the foot or footing: to obtain or take a sure foothold. literal and figurative. Obsolete. (Cf. to fasten the feet at fasten v. Phrases 1, and Latin figere gradum.)
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > take up position > firmly or with sure foothold
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 He stutted, apaled: And fixt his footing.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ix. 4 Fix thy foot . View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 98 The more weary [the Oxe] is, the more strong doth he fixe his footings.
1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 52 The Tartars could never fix a foot in China.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 3 I'll plant my Colours down In the mid-breach, and by 'em fix my foot.
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