lift one 's feet very high and put them down very slowly

lift one 's feet very high and put them down very slowly

Foot high, foot low, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ǎ og ā ob ù D ī, meaning to describe the footstep is not stable, askew. From the outlaws of the marsh.

The origin of Idioms

The 37th chapter of Water Margin written by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: "three people hide in the reeds. When they look behind, the torch is approaching. The more flustered they are, they walk high and low and bump into each other in the reeds."

Word usage

All the way, he bumped into his home, ran into his bedroom, took out his inkstone and gave it to his wife. Without taking off his clothes, he fell asleep on the bed. Xu Shukui's biography of Kuaishi in Qing Dynasty (Volume 6)