put your best foot forward

Meaning

1. to make a great effort to do sth, especially if it is difficult or you are feeling tired

In the movies · 2

• You stand up to them, put your best foot forward.The King and I2018
• Put your best foot forward.The King and I1956
• ...I expect each and every one of you to put your best foot forward.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005

From the same entry

• be rushed off your feet
• fall on your feet
• feet first
• 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

More idioms

• same to you
• sign on the dotted line
• smile from ear to ear
• take under your wing
• the long and short of it
• think nothing of it
• what's not to like
• disappear off the face of the earth
• sit tight
• be life
• say what
• in no hurry