bare feet
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- noun
- /bɛr fiːt/
:
pies descalzos
- Sarah runs after him, her bare feet slapping the cold linoleum.
A liquid fever Does the skin shrivel where her bare feet are too cold, Making prints in the new snow.
- A liquid fever Does the skin shrivel where her bare feet are too cold, Making prints in the new snow.
- So me and the boys snuck up in bare feet in the pitch dark with our arms in front of our eyes.
- Walk out into the grass, into the wildflowers, into the snow in your bare feet.
- even having my hand completely on the Dome, I don't feel any discharged. Now instead of this trap, I put my bare feet on the tiled ground and
- I had to go in the bare feet and the whole it's all full up with great big fucking plainclothes police officers and that.
- No, no, and like a lot of the ways I've survived is by like being so in with them, like the fact that I'm in with, you know, bare feet and whatever else.
Examples
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Don't go in there in your bare feet, I broke a glass.
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She's wearing her weekend khakis, bare feet, and an untucked plaid shirt.
Fiction book (1990) -
I mean, Kevin plays around here in his bare feet.
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So I thought, why not go out tonight and wander about in my bare feet?
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The floor beneath my bare feet was cold and slightly wet.
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Your bare feet are not used to this cobblestone.
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Beyond it, several men in bare feet and hats lounged against a wall.
Fiction book (1991) -
The second time I woke up, I went downstairs in the dark, my bare feet freezing on the linoleum.
Fiction book (1991) -
Late one night, while the miners roamed the woods, I heard Tobias's bare feet padding down the hall.
Fiction book (1992) -
The floor beneath my bare feet was cold and slightly wet.
Antonyms
How Bare
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'feet not covered by socks or shoes' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bare' (lacking covering) + 'feet' (plural of foot), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This is a literal, cross-linguistically common description of uncovered feet rather than an idiom, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Bare feet paints a simple picture: your feet are 'bare', with no socks or shoes, so they touch the ground directly. That's why it means 'feet not covered by socks or shoes'.