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

It fills and steadies the pulse, and plants the planet plump under one's feet.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

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.

The rocks seem to have life almost under one's feet.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner