| 单词 | to get one's feet under the table |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's feet under the table h. to get one's feet under the table and variants: to sit or settle at a table; (chiefly figurative) to make oneself at home; to establish oneself securely and comfortably in a situation. ΚΠ 1836 Hampshire Advertiser 14 May The council, indeed, would put my feet under the table with them. 1866 London Q. Rev. 25 361 We find him on one day sharing the hospitality of Warren Hastings, and the next he has his feet under the table of Burke. 1921 Amer. Gas Assoc. Monthly Oct. 519/2 Picture employer and employee getting their feet under the table to talk over reduction in injuries. 1987 Financial Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. i. 32 Dr Alan Greenspan has hardly got his feet under the table at the Federal Reserve and he is having to face his first currency crisis. 2010 S. Wombwell Allotment Gardening for Dummies xxiii. 410 These pests can get their feet under the table and be next to impossible to get rid of. < as lemmas |
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