feet first

Meaning

1. 1

   with your feet touching the ground before any other part of your body

   He landed feet first.

2. 2

   humorous

   if you leave a place feet first, you are carried out after you are dead

   You'll have to carry me out feet first!

In the movies · 4

• Left arm on the bar. Feet first.Billy Elliot2000
• The remains are to travel feet first...Taking Chance2009
• Tie his feet first.Bride of Frankenstein1935
• - Get up there, Noah. - Put his feet in there first, Tom.The Grapes of Wrath1940

From the same entry

• be rushed off your feet
• fall on your feet
• get a foot in the door
• get off on the right foot
• get your feet wet
• have feet of clay
• have your feet on the ground
• have a foot in both camps
• have one foot in the grave
• …my foot
• on your feet
• put your best foot forward