Sentence examples for wrong feet from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Wrong foot.

If you start something on the wrong foot, you start badly.

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I was so nervous I put my shoes on the wrong feet.

Yet before that race he was so nervous he initially put his shoes on the wrong feet.

We see her thrusting her son's shoes on the wrong feet and at the post-mortem, those feet are revealed as deformed.

You could put your child's shoes on the wrong feet just once, and trigger the idea that they died because you failed them.

Fulham fear It felt like the shoes were on the wrong feet at Craven Cottage on Saturday, as Stoke's style took on Fulham's substance.

A bit like that moment in Miss Marple when she suddenly realises the apparently genial hill walker was wearing his shoes on the wrong feet or whatever.

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They are off on the wrong foot.

Jenkins got 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".

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