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footsie

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play footsie with someone 
1. to get romantically or sexually involved with someone. (Refers literally to secretly pushing or rubbing feet with someone under the table.) Someone said that Ruth is playing footsie with Henry. Henry and Ruth are playing footsie with each other.
2. to get involved in a scheme with someone; to cooperate with someone. The guy who runs the butcher shop was playing footsie with the city meat inspector. Henry was playing footsie with the mayor in order to get the contract.
See also: play

play footsie  (informal)
to secretly touch someone's feet under a table with your feet, in order to show that you are sexually attracted to them (usually in continuous tenses) I think they were playing footsie in the meeting!
See also: play

play footsie with somebody   (mainly American)

to be involved with a person or an organization secretly, because you know that other people will not approve The government never forgave him for playing footsie with the terrorists.
See also: play


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In an early episode, two wives from the neighboring polygamous household play footsie under the table.
Did he ever play footsie with men or boys at a sports bar?
Robinson figure, especially in one hilarious scene in which she dines out with Oscar's father, Eve, and Oscar himself; he's terrified she'll reveal their affair, while she plays a mischievous footsie with him under the table.
 
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