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"on the wrong foot" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe when a situation starts poorly or with difficulty. For example: "The presentation started on the wrong foot when the presenter got the time wrong."
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They are off on the wrong foot.
Jenkins got off on the wrong foot.
Sometimes negotiations get off on the wrong foot.
Sometimes she simply gets off on the wrong foot.
Think we got off on the wrong foot.
It caught the goalkeeper on the wrong foot".
"But she has been caught on the wrong foot now".
The president got off on the wrong foot with Israel.
The whole project got off on the wrong foot.
"Cameron got off on the wrong foot immediately," he confided.
The Devils, however, started on the wrong foot.
More suggestions(17)
on the wrong hand
on the wrong stage
on the bad foot
on the wrong basis
on the wrong apartment
on the wrong finger
on the wrong leg
on the wrong ankle
on the wrong doorstep
on the wrong feet
on the wrong Marine
on the wrong track
on the wrong paper
on the wrong reef
on the wrong side
on the wrong ball
on the wrong sport
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