It originally meant "on the loose" or "taking flight" - literally (traveling) "on foot."
There is another connotation meaning "under way" (proceeding), as in "the plans are afoot for a new roadway."
Afoot,under way, progressing
It is still classified as an adjective (imminent, afoot, in progress), but it is mostly archaic, and it is not used as an adjective in modern US English.Toward in modern use is a preposition meaning "in the direction of."
Expression is a classic from Sherlock Holmes.The expression was a "classic" some 287/288 years before the literary character Sherlock Holmes ever uttered the phrase.The expression is from William Shakespeare's 'Henry V'* … a story written circa 1598 about King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.**The lines comes towards the end of a motivational monologue by King Henry V himself to his troops that is sometimes referred to as the 'once more into the breach' speech.I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!* Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the Fifth (in the First Quartotext) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text).** The "Hundred Years War" is actually a misnomer… the war actually lasted some 116 years.
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Hoofed it or hoofing means afoot, or walking.
Plans afoot for Egypt poultry projectEffort afoot to allow guns on campuses
Something's Afoot was created in 1976.
199-12 inches as afoot = 187
shifty doings are afoot,
The Townes Van Zandt song "Frisco Depot" uses the word "afoot". Here is his lyric... " When you're afoot, there's nothing as fast as a train."
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Fun Afoot - 1928 was released on: USA: 18 March 1928
If you mean bacteria-- like all urine, unless there is an infection afoot, it is sterile.
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The cast of There Are Cold Toes Afoot - 2008 includes: Mary Odbert
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