from under

Examples

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with. Gerald Stanley Lee

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.”. Randall Jarrell

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses. Aldo Leopold

He ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain. Afghan Proverb

As though a bird had flown up from under your feet. Japanese Proverb

Remove firewood from under a pot. Chinese Proverb

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