get off/start off on the right foot

1. get off/start off on the wrong foot - if you get off on the wrong foot with someone you have just met, your relationship starts badly, often with an argument.

I got off on the right foot by telling her how impressed I was with her work. (usually in past tenses)

2. get off/start off on the wrong foot - to start an activity badly.

The commission has started off on the right foot by consulting local people.

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• main drag
• make a bad fist of
• make a bad fist of doing something
• make a bad fist of something
• make a beeline for
• make a beeline for someone
• make a beeline for something
• make a big thing of
• make a big thing of something
• make a big thing out of
• make a big thing out of something
• make a case for
• make a case for doing something
• make a case for something
• make a clean breast of it
• make a [day/night/weekend etc.] of it
• make a day of it
• make a dent in
• make a dent in something
• make a difference
• make a face
• make a face at
• make a face at someone
• make a face at something