{"id":16351,"date":"2006-02-10T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/10\/back-foot.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:17:52","slug":"back-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/10\/back-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"back foot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/b31ceae0-9a66-11da-8b63-0000779e2340.html\">Israel and US on back foot over Hamas<\/a>\"<\/p>\n<p>--headline in Financial Times, 10 February 2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UsingEnglish.com says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/reference\/idioms\/back+foot.html\">back foot<\/a> is a British idiom; to be on one's back foot means to be in a defensive\/disadvantageous position.<\/p>\n<p>I'm guessing it's a cricket term, but I suppose it could be from just about any sport.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;Israel and US on back foot over Hamas&#8221; &#8211;headline in Financial Times, 10 February 2006 UsingEnglish.com says back foot is a British idiom; to be on one&#8217;s back foot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}