take a load off one's feet

[take a load off one's feet] {v. phr.}

To alleviate one's fatigue by sitting down during some taxing work.

* /"You've been standing there for hours, Jake," John said. "Why don't you take a load off your feet?"/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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