"stick one's foot in it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stick one's foot in it.wav Forms: sticks one's foot in it [present, singular, third-person], sticking one's foot in it [participle, present], stuck one's foot in it [participle, past], stuck one's foot in it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stick<,,stuck> one's foot in it}} stick one's foot in it (third-person singular simple present sticks one's foot in it, present participle sticking one's foot in it, simple past and past participle stuck one's foot in it)
  1. (figurative, idiomatic) To put one's foot in it. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic Synonyms: stick one's toe in it, put one's toe in it
    Sense id: en-stick_one's_foot_in_it-en-verb-5zndz6B2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 56 44 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 32
  2. (figurative, idiomatic, of food, African-American Vernacular) Used to indicate that something turned out delicious Tags: figuratively, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-stick_one's_foot_in_it-en-verb-3MejwHNI Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (of food): put one's foot in it
Disambiguation of 'of food': 0 0

Inflected forms

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