on foot

[on foot] {adv.}

or {adj. phr.}

1. By walking.

* /Sally's bicycle broke and she had to return home on foot./

2. Being planned.

* /The reporter said that a civil rights demonstration was on foot./

* /Plans have been set on foot for a party for Miss Jackson, because she is retiring./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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