to put (one's) feet up
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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- After a long day at work, I like to put my feet up and watch my favorite show.
Examples
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Put your feet up, relax.
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Put your feet up and make yourself at home.
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It's time to put your feet up.
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Turn that thing off, put your feet up, mom.
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Immediately, I put my feet up.
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Hey, Jack, go put your feet up.
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Just put your feet up.
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Everybody, put your feet up.
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Go put your feet up.
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Look, why don't you take the day off, go upstairs, put your feet up?
Synonyms
221
1.0
To put your body flat on a bed to rest or sleep
21
2.5
Lie down with your body straight to rest or relax
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4.2
To relax while sitting or lying with your feet raised
Antonyms
How Relaxed
35
3.4
- Informal
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1.0
816
1.0
496
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition 'put' + 'feet' + 'up' clearly yields the idea of elevating one's feet, so a learner who knows the words can reconstruct the physical action. However, the conventionalized sense 'to relax/rest' (i.e. elevating feet as a culturally understood way to rest) requires pragmatic or cultural inference beyond the literal parts, so the meaning is only partially predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The idiom put your feet up comes from the simple picture of lifting your feet onto a footstool or sofa to stop work and rest. That's why it now means 'to relax or rest'.