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副詞

feet-first (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of feet first.

反意語

• head-first
• headlong

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副詞

feet first (not comparable)

1. (of the movement または transportation of a person または animal) With the feet preceding the rest of the body.
2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) In the manner of a deceased person (i.e., dead).
   • 1910, Jack London, chapter 4, in Burning Daylight:

     "If that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging. They ain't a soul'll get out the room except feet first."

   • 1943 Oct. 18, "How to Be a Racketeer," Time:

     "‘Anybody resigns from us resigns feet first, understand?’ he tells me. So I didn't resign."

   • 2001 May 23, Robin Finn, "Public Lives," New York Times (retrieved 9 Sep 2009):

     "They'll probably have to take me out of here feet first," says Ms. Steinem, punctuating the prediction with a growl of laughter (mortality has been in the back of her mind since breast cancer treatment a dozen years ago. . .).

副詞

feetfirst ‎(not comparable)

1. With one's feet going first.
   • 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “No-Ice Hockey”, Chicago Reader:

     So DeCamilli, sliding feetfirst, undercuts the Bomber and sends him sliding into the wall.

   • 2012, Dottie Escobedo-Frank, ReStart Your Church^[1], ISBN 1426761600, page 90:

     When we are still worried about our lack of experience and ability to swim, we jump in feetfirst.

形容詞

feetfirst ‎(not comparable)

1. With one's feet going first.
   • 1965, United States. 6570th Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, AMRL-TR. - Issue 65^[2], page 22:

     On the feetfirst top-top with a 19-inch hole, your body is tilted to about a 35-degree angle on entry.

関連する語

• headfirst