get/start off on the wrong foot

Definition

› to start a relationship or activity badly: He got off on the wrong foot with my parents by arriving late.

(Definition of get/start off on the wrong foot from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed

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