My foot
When you say “my foot!” you are telling someone that you don’t believe – or strongly disagree with – what someone has told you. It is an idiom used to express disbelief or incredulity.
When you’re writing it, you usually follow it with an exclamation mark: “my foot!”
Examples:
- She said she’d write. Write, my foot! She never writes.
- It’s supposed to be sunny tomorrow. Sunny, my foot! It’s pouring with rain!
- They told me my car would be mended by Tuesday. Tuesday, my foot! It’s already Thursday and it’s still not ready.
- He’s supposed to be the best footballer in the country. Best in the country, my foot! He’s not even the best in this town.
There are lots of similar idioms, including:
- As if!
- That’s a likely story.
- In your dreams!
- You’re pulling my leg.
- Pull the other leg.
- Pull the other one, it’s got bells on!
- You’re yanking my chain.
- Since when?
- Tell me another one!
- Tell it to the Marines!
- Yeah, right!
- You must be joking.
- You’ve got to be kidding.
- Give over.
- Get away.
- Get away with you.
- Get out of here.
- In your dreams.
- Are you for real?
- Leave it out.
- Since when?
- I’ll take that with a pinch of salt.
- My eye!
- My hat.
- If that’s true, I’ll eat my hat.
- Don’t give me that!
- I’ll believe it when I see it.
- You’re telling porkies. (Cockney rhyming slang: porkies = pork pies = lies. For more about cockney rhyming slang you might want to take a look at https://word-connection.com/unravelling-cockney-rhyming-slang/)
