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

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

From Spanish Doubloons by Camilla Kenyon

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.

From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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 Sir Hugh Walpole