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shvetsov2005
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 Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject: hot footing |
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Before you go hot footing it in search of a solution, get a feel
for the scope of the problem.
What does hot footing mean in this sentence?
Alexander.. |
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Nef
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: hot footing |
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| shvetsov2005 wrote: |
Before you go hot footing it in search of a solution, get a feel
for the scope of the problem.
What does hot footing mean in this sentence?
Alexander.. |
I thinking it means "running off in search of" or "rushing off in search of".
(The advice is to think first, act later.) |
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CP
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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A hot foot is a trick that can be played on someone. You put a match between the sole and the uppers of a person's shoe, with the head of the match pointing out. (You have to be a little sneaky doing it, of course.) Then you light the match with another match, and the burning match heats up the person's foot. He jumps around crazily and everyone has a good laugh.
Anyway, that's the way it worked in the old-time movies.
So hot-footing is stepping lively some way or another. And hot-footing it from one place to another is going there in a hurry, as if one's foot were on fire.
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