under one's feet

Idioms  

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

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under one's feet

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.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2016

“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.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Across the road ahead slinks the jackal, Anubis; under one's feet crawls Khepera, the scarab; and there, under the sacred tree, sleeps the horned ram of Amon.

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.

No one seemed to speak; you could see no faces under the spare pale-flamed lamps, only hear whispers and smell rotten stinks and feel the snow, foul and soiled under one's feet….

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

At the lower end, between the two arches, a black, water-worn rock paving rang under one's feet.

From Spanish Doubloons by Kenyon, Camilla