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Get Your Feet Under The Table: To Become Familiar With and Confident in A New Job or Situation

The document defines and provides examples for three English idioms: 1) "Get your feet under the table" means to become familiar and confident in a new job or situation. 2) "Raise (someone's) hackles" means to annoy someone, referring to how a dog's neck hairs stand up when angry. 3) "Fly in the ointment" refers to a single negative element that spoils an otherwise positive situation.

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Get Your Feet Under The Table: To Become Familiar With and Confident in A New Job or Situation

The document defines and provides examples for three English idioms: 1) "Get your feet under the table" means to become familiar and confident in a new job or situation. 2) "Raise (someone's) hackles" means to annoy someone, referring to how a dog's neck hairs stand up when angry. 3) "Fly in the ointment" refers to a single negative element that spoils an otherwise positive situation.

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Dreadful

awful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening,


horrendous, horrific, terrible

get your feet under the table (British)


to become familiar with and confident in a new job or situation It's better to wait until you've got your
feet firmly under the table before you make any big changes.

raise (somebody's) hackles also make (somebody's) hackles rise


to annoy someone
Usage notes: Hackles are the hairs on the back of a dog's neck which stand up when it is angry.
The politician's frank interview may have raised hackles in his party. The movie's pro-war message
made many people's hackles rise.

to annoy someone

fly in the ointment INFORMAL


a single thing or person that is spoiling a situation which could have been very positive
or enjoyable
I'm looking forward to Sunday, the only fly in the ointment being the fact that I shall
have to sit next to my mother-in-law.

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