get off on the wrong foot

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get off on the wrong foot also start off on the wrong foot

to begin doing something in a way that is likely to fail Holly's new secretary really got off on the wrong foot by being rude to visitors. Opposite of: get off on the right foot

See also: foot, get, wrong

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