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Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road... #1 (permalink) Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:07 am   Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road...		  
The context is --

It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road. How would you feel?
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Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road... #2 (permalink) Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:56 am   Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road...		  
Hi Gray,

How about ; Like a cat on hot bricks?

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Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road... #3 (permalink) Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:28 am   Idioms in context: It is too hot and you are walking barefoot on the road...		  
Alan wrote:
Hi Gray,

How about ; Like a cat on hot bricks?

Alan


Oh, now I could imagine how those cushy sole would be feeling on hot bricks :)

By the way, I couldn't find a separate word (apart from heel) for the portion of the foot that touches ground. Is there any? In my mother tongue, we have separate words for heel and the remaining portion of the foot.

Edited -- I was blank for a while, the word is "sole" :)
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