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Flat-footed   /flæt-fˈʊtɪd/   Listen
Flat-footed

adjective
1.
With feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe.
2.
Unprepared and unable to react quickly.
3.
Having broad flat feet that usually turn outward.
4.
Without reservation.






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"Flat-footed" Quotes from Famous Books



... brown outran the chestnut over four lengths, starting half a neck in the rear. A general canvass of the outfit was taken, and to my surprise there was over three hundred dollars amongst us. I had over forty dollars, but I only promised to loan mine if it was needed, while Priest refused flat-footed either to lend or bet his. I wanted to bet, and it would grieve me to the quick if there was any chance and I didn't take it—but I was ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

... been watched. To-night she had on her summer dress, a respectable, rather shiny gown of grayish mauve, a bonnet edged with white ribbon, a pair of white thread gloves. She carried her little bag and a small Japanese fan. Walking in a strange, flat-footed way that was peculiar to her, and glancing narrowly about her, yet keeping her hand almost still, she advanced towards the band-stand. As she came opposite to Artois the orchestra of women struck up the "Valse Noir," and the old woman stood still, ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens

... its character. He was a pompous little man to whom the inelegant applied the term of runt. He never could have passed the army examination, for he had no instep. He walked like a duck, flat-footed, minus the waddle. He was pop-eyed, and the fumes of strong drink had loosened the tear-ducts so that his eyes swam in a perennial mist of tears. His wife still called him William, but down town he was Bill. He knew everybody in town, and everybody in town knew him. There was a time ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

... gone from Behagnies now. He did not march in the retreat a little apart from the troops, with head bent forward and hand thrust in jacket, a flat-footed Napoleon: yet he is gone; for no one would have left behind for the enemy so precious a thing as a Charlie Chaplin film. He is gone but he will return. He will come with his cane one day along that Arras road to the old hut in Behagnies; and ...
— Tales of War • Lord Dunsany

... head with a despairing gesture. "Oh, Rob, you're hopeless! You don't undahstand at all! Nobody wants you to be flowery, and nobody likes flat-footed, out-and-out compliments. They're not nice at all. I just meant—well—I scarcely know what I did mean, but you know how Malcolm does. It isn't that he says a thing in so many words, but he has a way of somehow making you feel that he has noticed ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston

... an active woman of action. Flat-footed and hatless, but with incredible speed, she dashed down the stairs, out of the house, and up the street. She returned in five minutes ...
— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris

... A man is built for work, like a truck. Gold and leather upholstering do not belong there. Women are different; it is their place in life to be beautiful, and when they fail in that, they fail entirely. They have no license to be fat, flabby double-chinned, flat-footed. It is not seemly, and of course you cannot tell how any of them may turn out. They are all pretty at sixteen. That is what makes marriage such ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... He stopped and stood flat-footed in the middle of the ring, hands hanging idle at his ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans



Words linked to "Flat-footed" :   direct, splayfooted, splayfoot, colloquialism, footed, unready



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