Put your feet up

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verb

To rest and relax, especially by sitting or lying down with your feet raised.

After a long day of work, she just wanted to put her feet up and watch television.
Visual representation of "put your feet up" - to rest and relax, especially by sitting or lying down with your feet raised

Often appears as...

  • put your feet up and relax
  • put your feet up after a long day

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Colloquial

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Informal Use

Used in casual conversations, not in professional or formal settings.

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I can't wait to finish this hike and put my feet up.
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Figurative Sense

Means to relax; doesn't necessarily involve physically raising your feet.

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After the exams, I'm going to put my feet up for the whole weekend.
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Not Literal

It's an idiom; you don't always put your feet up physically when you say it.

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Let's finish this project so we can put our feet up.
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