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start off on the wrong foot

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start off on the wrong foot

 and step off on the wrong foot

Fig. to begin things incorrectly. (As if one were beginning to march and began on the right rather than the left foot.) Give me some advice. I don't want to start off on the wrong foot. Tim stepped off on the wrong foot in his new job.

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