It's from cricket and contrasts being " on the back foot ". I believe it may also be from boxing. Front foot: attack; back foot: defence.

Time for India to get on the front foot Anand Vasu February 19, 2001 In every war movie, book or mythological story the first thing rulers are rumoured to do, is get on the highest balcony, address a gathering of teeming masses

User_gary wrote: We took the team apart by 200 runs. Is this sentence correct? Please help me. Unless it means, "slaughtered" or "beat by", it doesn't make much sense to me.

We took the team apart by 200 runs. Is this sentence correct? Please help me.

Hi, Tom is a captain of the Austrlian team. He took wrong decision e.g. instead of batting, he took bowling(cricket). Now, I think, this decision is for the worse because at present condition it seems Australia is going to loss the match though

Tom is a captain of the Austrlian team. He took wrong decision e.g. instead of batting, he took bowling(cricket). Now, I think, this decision is for the worse because at present condition it seems Australia is going to loss the match though I am

After all much efforts, the match came down to weather condition and I couldn't take single wicket in the match. I mean, by the sentence, that -- Though I put enough efforts to take wickets, I couldn't do it because the pitch has been strongly

Looks like a cricket score: Smith has zero runs for two wickets taken. More context might make it clear. Whatever, it is not an idiom in itself.

I love watching Basketball(NBA League) and Tennis. I love watching India Vs Pakistan Cricket Match I love Playing Cricket

Inter-Company Cricket tournament 2007 is all set to rock Bangalore on the 24th of June. Clarification : Please clarify whether the usage of "the" before 24th is a valid statement. Can we use the articl in front of a number...as far as i know an