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Idioms and Phrases

Free from difficulties, especially from a burden of debts or work. For example, They've been using credit cards for everything and don't know how they'll get out from under , or We have loads of mail to answer, but we'll soon get out from under . This idiom uses under in the sense of “in a position of subjection.” [Mid-1800s]

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Comprehending the way Martin set up Ned on the page to be the triumphant hero, only to pull the rug out from under his readers, is one matter.

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The ground falls out from under her feet.

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She managed to crawl out from under the rubble and her husband also made it out alive.

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Walz said that the president has captured a group of voters whose "economic future is so precarious it could slip out from under them" and charged the party with crafting a message that grabs those people.

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The world has repeatedly pulled the rug out from under them, so many are struggling with financial insecurity regardless of their actual net worth.

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