Footwear Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• As tough as old boots
• Athlete's foot
• Bet your boots
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Boot camp
• Boot up
• Boots Of Spanish Leather (Bob Dylan song)
• Bossy boots
• Bound hand and foot
• Clever clogs
• Daisy roots (Cockney rhyming slang for boots)
• Dance your socks off
• Die with your boots on
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Fill your boots
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Give someone the boot
• Hang up your boots
• High heel sneakers
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)

• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• Knock your socks off
• Let me not judge anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
• Lick someone's boots
• My heart sank into my boots
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Pop your clogs
• Pull your socks up
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put the boot in
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Set foot in
• Seven league boots
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The order of the boot
• The shoe's on the other foot
• To boot
• Too big for your boots
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• You bet your boots