under one's feet

1. In one's path or in one's way, as in Come on, children, get out from under my feet.

Example Sentences

“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary.

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The sense of a world cruelly torn out from under one’s feet was intensified when his mother sold the ranch Sam and his siblings had expected to inherit.

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In addition to the danger of ice blocks moving under one’s feet while crossing the Khumbu icefall, a second set of concerns present themselves overhead.

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Driving is all very well, but with police and traffic wardens constantly under one's feet, added to the normal hazards of British roads, any woman would rather be driven if she had the chance.

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Only think of it—to ride in the darkness under the stars, to make one's horse leap from cloud to cloud, to watch the sea glittering under one's feet and the mountain tops going by.

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