On The Front Foot
What it means
Be attacking rather than defending, setting the terms instead of responding to somebody else's.
Where it comes from
It is cricket. A batter steps onto the front foot to attack a ball pitched up, and rocks onto the back foot to defend a short one. Politics borrowed both from the commentary box.
The puzzle it came from
On The Front Foot was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 15, 2026. The clue read on the ____ ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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lucid
dream
big
foot
path
bag
check
out
front
door
note
book
club
house
hold
puppet
show
horse
play
ground
Phrasicle: On The Front Foot