Synonyms for foothold
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : foo t-hohld |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfʊtˌhoʊld |
Définition of foothold
Origin :- 1620s, from foot (n.) + hold (n.). Figurative use by 1650s.
- noun ledge
- Somewhere on the foothold of the rocks men were lurking, I made sure.
- Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton
- It is so easy for him to get a foothold in a girl's heart here.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- A new tributary for the archic man, and a foothold in the enemy's country.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- He kicked into it with his feet, got a foothold, and worked the hole bigger.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- He scrambled and fought desperately for foothold in the slipping earth.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- A bright thought has managed to get a foothold in her brain.
- Extract from : « Pathfinder » by Alan Douglas
- Our attack will have as its objective the seizure of a foothold on the high ground.
- Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
- Presently he worked himself up a little and at last got a foothold.
- Extract from : « An American Robinson Crusoe » by Samuel. B. Allison
- Who would ever have suspected that there had been in her life any foothold for tragedy?
- Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
- It's too steep to plow, and only a goat could find a foothold on it to graze.
- Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays » by Laura Lee Hope
Words or expressions associated with your search
- afoot
- American football
- Association football
- barefoot
- barefooted
- Canadian football
- canadian footballs
- cloven-footed
- dog the footsteps of
- equal footing
- fancy footwork
- fancy footworks
- flat-footed
- flatfoot
- fleet of foot
- foot
- foot it
- foot long
- foot the bill
- footage
- football
- footing
- footlights
- footlong
- footloose
- footloose and fancy-free
- footman
- footnote
- footprint
- footslog
- footstep
- footsteps
- footstone
- footwear
- go on foot
- harefooted
- having fancy footwork
- hot foot
- hotfoot
- lead-footed
- leadfoot
- light-footed
- lose footing
- nimble-footed
- on foot
- one foot in grave
- one foot in the grave
- pussyfoot
- put foot down
- put foot in
- put one's foot down
- putting foot in mouth
- rabbit foot
- rabbit's foot
- set foot in
- shoot oneself in foot
- slewfoot
- tenderfoot
- tenderfooted
- the footlights
- travel on foot
- underfoot
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