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  • It is titled "Watch your Step" which implies some level of personal responsibility, and then proceeds to offer advice on how blame always lies somewhere other than the tangle-footed idiot carrying three cups of coffee who forget to tie his shoelaces.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • As long as no one ever knew she made him tongue-tied and tangle-footed he could keep his promise to Jimmy and leave his honor intact. jenna was bending over a big, open, half-empty box when the phone rang.

    A Ranger's Wife Ellis, Lyn 1999

  • "That tangle-footed bay of Dad's dumped me in Beaver Creek, but I'm okay."

    Wild Blood Horton, Naomi 1997

  • As he passed with his burden some of the men made clumsy tangle-footed efforts to salute.

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • We now return you to our regularly scheduled tangle-footed, noodle-legged runningbacks ...

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • a good spell ago by chaps in the Old Country, an 'though Sunday-school teachers and preachers mixed the matter up in our minds, an' got us all tangle-footed, we know they're dar, an 'you'll know what we mean.

    Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

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