Put Your Best Foot Forward

Put Your Best Foot Forward

A cliché is a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought (Oxford). Put your best foot forward means to embark on an undertaking with as much effort and determination as possible (Oxford). This phrase should remain in use because it is a good cliché and has a good strong meaning behind it which indicates that you should always try your hardest at what you do and to always try new things. The phrase should be changed to put your better foot forward to make more sense for humans.

Although the cliché put your best foot forward should remain in use it should be changed to put your better foot forward if you are going to use the phrase to relate to humans. To put your best foot forward is implying on having three or more feet which doesn't make much sense for humans to use the phrase since we only have two feet. It would make more sense for a cow or other animal to use the phrase put your best foot forward since they have more than two feet and are able to decide which one is their best foot out of the amount they have. This way it would make more sense for humans to use the saying put your better foot forward since we only have two feet. This way it is either one foot or the other that we have to decide which the better one would be and to put forward.

Therefore, this phrase doesn't distort the meaning of its usage. The only way it could distort the meaning of its usage would be depending on what you are relating the phrase to as in one to two feet or two plus feet. This cliché has a good meaning behind it and before you use the phrase you should just remember what you are trying to relate it to before you say what you are going to say. Even though that this phrase should be changed to put your better foot forward to relate it to humans but if you still use it as put your best foot forward it will make sense it just won't be as accurate as to which way you use the phrase or to what you relate the phrase to.