put one's feet up

Idioms and Phrases

Rest, as in After a day of gardening I'm ready to put my feet up .

Example Sentences

For most people, reaching 100 would be reason enough to put one’s feet up and take things easy, but Lisel Heise has other ideas.

From The Guardian

It pits a frenetic workaday pace against the understandable temptation to put one's feet up at the end of the day, turn on the tube and just veg out.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no need to make polite conversation down here, and one might smoke, no matter how cheap the tobacco, and put one's feet up, and really Bouquet was almost as good as a fire when you once get used to it.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• calm
• lie down
• loosen up
• recline
• sit back
• soften
• unwind