Today while watching baseball, I heard this: "Something is afoot. " You may know I love to figure out where idioms come from and what they mean. So here goes... I got a fairly boring response. It means that an activity is in progress. It also sometimes implies that something secret or surprising is happening behind the scenes. " Ahhhhh, something is afoot I see." Imagine the voice I heard in my head as I typed it out!
The word afoot first appeared in the 13th century(around 1275) in Middle English texts, such as the writings of the poet Laȝamon. The famous phrase "the game is afoot" was first recorded later by William Shakespeare in his play King Henry IV, Part 1 around 1597. And that's about all there is to it!
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