off the back foot
prep_phraseEtymology By analogy with a cricket shot.
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Idiomatic From a defensive position.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
prep_phrase
Etymology By analogy with a cricket shot.
Idiomatic From a defensive position.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
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