take a load off one's feet

take a load off one's feet
{v. phr.} To alleviate one's fatigue by sitting down during some taxing work. * /"You've been standing there for hours, Jake," John said. "Why don't you take a load off your feet?"/

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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