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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Example Sentences

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 Kenyon, Camilla

The snow creaked under one's feet, as if one had new boots on.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

A truly impressive scene, solid rock under one's feet, pure crystal water trickling down its walls, streams fell from above on * * * of rock, which by constant trickling were now smooth and symmetrical.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd