walk someone off their feet

walk someone off their feet
informal
to make someone tired with a lot of walking

She's walked me off my feet with all that shopping.


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  • walk someone off their feet — informal phrase to make someone tired with a lot of walking She’s walked me off my feet with all that shopping. Thesaurus: to make someone tiredsynonym Main entry: walk * * * walk with someone until they are exhausted …   Useful english dictionary

  • walk */*/*/ — I UK [wɔːk] / US [wɔk] verb Word forms walk : present tense I/you/we/they walk he/she/it walks present participle walking past tense walked past participle walked 1) a) [intransitive] to move forwards by putting one foot in front of the other Has …   English dictionary

  • walk — walk1 W1S1 [wo:k US wo:k] v 1.) [I and T] to move forward by putting one foot in front of the other ▪ How did you get here? We walked. ▪ Doctors said he d never walk again. walk into/down/up etc ▪ Carrie walked into the room and sat down in her… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • walk — 1 verb 1 MOVE ALONG (I) to move along putting one foot in front of the other: We must have walked ten miles today. (+ along/around/up etc): How long does it take to walk into town? | walk down the street | walk back/home: Marcus and I walked back …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • walk — walk1 [ wɔk ] verb *** ▸ 1 move with feet ▸ 2 go with someone on foot ▸ 3 give pet exercise ▸ 4 move heavy object ▸ 5 leave job permanently ▸ 6 disappear or be stolen ▸ 7 be freed in legal trial ▸ 8 in baseball ▸ 9 travel in basketball ▸ +… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • walk — /wɔk / (say wawk) verb (i) 1. to go or travel on foot at a moderate pace; to proceed by steps, or by advancing the feet in turn, at a moderate pace (in bipedal locomotion, so that there is always one foot on the ground, and in quadrupedal… …  

  • foot — [[t]f ʊt[/t]] ♦ feet 1) N COUNT Your feet are the parts of your body that are at the ends of your legs, and that you stand on. She stamped her foot again. ...a foot injury. ...his aching arms and sore feet. Derived words: footed COMB in ADJ She… …   English dictionary

  • Six Feet Under (TV series) — Infobox Television show name = Six Feet Under caption = Six Feet Under title screen format = Drama location = Los Angeles runtime = approx. 55 min. creator = Alan Ball starring = Peter Krause Michael C. Hall Frances Conroy Lauren Ambrose Freddy… …   Wikipedia

  • foot — foot1 W1S1 [fut] n plural feet [fi:t] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(body part)¦ 2¦(measurement)¦ 3¦(bottom part)¦ 4 on foot 5 get/jump/rise etc to your feet 6 be on your feet 7 be/get back on your feet …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • foot — 1 /fUt/ noun plural feet /fi:t/ (C) 1 BODY PART the part of your body that you stand on and walk on: I have a really bad pain in my foot. 2 on foot if you go somewhere on foot, you walk there: It takes about 30 minutes on foot, or 10 minutes if… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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