Charrington, a philanthropist and moral crusader, filed a police complaint against the Fulham chairman for "grossly unnecessary violence" but, as noted in When the Whistle Blows by John Kemp and Andrew Riddoch, his grievance was not upheld once it was established that during the scuffle "his tall silk hat remained on his head, he did not lose possession of his cigar, and never lost foothold".
They lost foothold in life as well as their sense of security and they became vulnerable.
Many homeless people lost footholds in subterranean passages beneath the World Trade Center.
But she was not self-pitying, even when the business became an industry and women lost their foothold.
France's Groupe Danone finally lost its foothold in China this fall after a two-year legal battle with local beverage maker Wahaha.
Five decades later, although we humans haven't completely lost our foothold to computers, they have become a much bigger part of our daily lives than in 1965.
Collins had not played a minute in the previous two games and had, by all appearances, lost his foothold in Coach Isiah Thomas's guard rotation.
In Drugs, Inc., a documentary-style show about the drug trade (produced by National Geographic and streaming on Netflix), a recent episode shows how cocaine, once the stalwart of white-collar professionals, lost its foothold because of DEA crackdowns and Latin American drug cartels' control of the drug.
Another woman talked about how she lost her foothold in life, felt almost unconscious, as if "in a black hole" from which she could not escape.
But there is another meaning, the one that coaches secretly fear — the lapse in attitude that can occur when focus loses a foothold against the grind of a long season.
