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play footsie with someone

 

1. to get romantically or sexually involved with someone. (Refers literally to secretly pushing or rubbing feet with someone under the table.) Someone said that Ruth is playing footsie with Henry. Henry and Ruth are playing footsie with each other.

2. to get involved in a scheme with someone; to cooperate with someone. The guy who runs the butcher shop was playing footsie with the city meat inspector. Henry was playing footsie with the mayor in order to get the contract.

See also: footsie, play

play footsie

  (informal)

to secretly touch someone's feet under a table with your feet, in order to show that you are sexually attracted to them (usually in continuous tenses) I think they were playing footsie in the meeting!

See also: footsie, play

play footsie with somebody

  (mainly American)

to be involved with a person or an organization secretly, because you know that other people will not approve The government never forgave him for playing footsie with the terrorists.

See also: footsie, play

play footsie

1. Behave coyly, flirt with, especially secretly. For example, Get to the point, there's no need to play footsie with us. This expression alludes to two persons surreptitiously rubbing each other's feet together. [1940s]

2. Cooperate or curry favor with in a sly or secret way, as in The mayor's been playing footsie with various neighborhood councils. [Mid-1900s]

See also: footsie, play

play footsie

1. To flirt with someone by secretly touching the feet with one's own.

2. To cooperate or curry favor in a sly or devious way.

See also: footsie, play