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somethings a foot

English translation: something is afoot

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English term or phrase:somethings a foot
Selected answer:something is afoot
Entered by: Margaret Lagoyianni

22:46 Jun 3, 2002
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
English term or phrase: somethings a foot
somethings a foot

//it's juts one line, no sentence, again about the guy with the concrete shoes...
bg.Linguist
Bulgaria
Local time: 01:06
something is afoot
Explanation:
Something suspicious is about to happen or likely to happen in the future.

A common English expression
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Margaret Lagoyianni
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:06
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4something is afoot
Margaret Lagoyianni
5the guy with the concrete shoes...is the key here.
Paraskevi Brunson
4something is afoot; if something is then it is already happening (but often happening secretly
Petra Molenaar
4something significant is about to occur
jerryk (X)


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
something is afoot


Explanation:
Something suspicious is about to happen or likely to happen in the future.

A common English expression

Margaret Lagoyianni
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:06
PRO pts in pair: 9

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  RHELLER
0 min
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: but I don't think it is necessarily suspicious
3 mins
agree  Yuri Geifman: not necessarily suspicious - cf. the famous Holmsian "the game is afoot!"
38 mins
agree  Gabriel Aramburo Siegert
1 hr
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
something is afoot; if something is then it is already happening (but often happening secretly


Explanation:
other google hits too.

Petra

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Note added at 2002-06-03 22:53:27 (GMT)
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should read if something is afoot then it is laready happening....


    Reference: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/news/words...
Petra Molenaar
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 11
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
something significant is about to occur


Explanation:
See the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of Holmes favorite expressions was "the game's afoot", things are happening, we'ld better do something.

jerryk (X)
PRO pts in pair: 8
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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
the guy with the concrete shoes...is the key here.


Explanation:
When someone has concrete shoes, unfortunatley, means that the person wearing the concrete around his feet was or is being dropped into a river, lake or other waterway that will hide his drowned corps.

Paraskevi Brunson
United States
Local time: 15:06
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek
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