Shoe Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• Arsenic And Old Lace (Cary Grant movie)
• Athlete's foot
• Baby needs new shoes
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Boot camp
• Boot up
• Bound hand and foot
• Cement shoes
• Chantilly Lace (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Clog up
• Clothes maketh the man
• Concrete shoes
• Dead men's shoes
• Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (Paul Simon song)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Down at heel
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Give it some wellie
• Give someone the boot
• Goody two shoes
• Hush puppies
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• Kick off your shoes and enjoy
• Kitten heels

• Lace into
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Live on a shoestring
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Personal trainer
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put the boot in
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Set foot in
• Shoeicide bomber
• Shoestring budget
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Sword and sandal
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The emperor's new clothes
• The order of the boot
• The shoe's on the other foot
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• To boot
• Training shoes
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Walk a mile in my shoes
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)
• White Shoes (Nickname of Billy Johnson)
• Work the rabbit's foot on