on the wrong foot
基本解釋
- 以不好的方式開始，出師不利
英漢例句
- When Joe went to his new job, he got off on the wrong foot--on the first morning he upset his new boss by arriving at the store two hours late.
喬找到了一份新的工作，可是他剛開始到那家店里去上班時就給人一個壞印象。 第一天上班他就晚到兩個小時，讓他的老板好不高興。 - It starts you on the wrong foot right away.
它一開始就讓你們邁錯了步子。
blog.sina.com.cn - The programme got off very much on the wrong foot with the lineation programme the German were given responsibility.
但這項計劃從一開始就錯了,德國人負責此項項目。
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