foot doctor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of foot doctor
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Schreiner noted that one farmer told him that converting a conventional farmer was like asking “a foot doctor to become a heart surgeon.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
I was then able to see a specialist foot doctor, and after an emergency scan he told me my toe was not broken.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2021
His father was a police sergeant in Waco when he was killed, while his grandfather was a retired plumber and his grandmother worked for a foot doctor.
From Fox News ● Mar. 1, 2019
It involves a foot doctor in Queens who rented his office from Mr. Trump’s father, Fred C. Trump, and a suggestion that the diagnosis was granted as a courtesy to the elder Mr. Trump.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
“It might even be a migraine. My aunts foot doctor used to get migraines, only they turned out not to be migraines at all. Do you know what they were?”
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
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