Meanings
- not comparableWith dry feet; without getting the feet wet.
Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC - not comparableobsoleteBy only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.).
A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel.
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]
Origin
Translations
Russian не замочи́в но́г, по́суху
- не замочи́в но́г (ne zamočív nóg)with dry feet
- по́суху (pósuxu)with dry feet
- по за́паху следо́в (po zápaxu sledóv)by scent of the feet
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