let the grass grow under one's feet

noun

1. any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains.Compare grass family.
2. such plants collectively, as when cultivated in lawns or used as pasture for grazing animals or cut and dried as hay.
3. the grass-covered ground.
4. pasture: Half the farm is grass.
5. Slang. marijuana.
6. grasses, stalks or sprays of grass: filled with dried grasses.
7. the season of the new growth of grass.

verb (used with object)

8. to cover with grass or turf.
9. to feed with growing grass; pasture.
10. to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching.

verb (used without object)

11. to feed on growing grass; graze.
12. to produce grass; become covered with grass.

Idioms

13. go to grass, to retire from one’s occupation or profession: Many executives lack a sense of purpose after they have gone to grass.
14. let the grass grow under one’s feet, to delay action, progress, etc.; become slack in one’s efforts.

noun

1. any monocotyledonous plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), having jointed stems sheathed by long narrow leaves, flowers in spikes, and seedlike fruits. The family includes cereals, bamboo, etc
2. such plants collectively, in a lawn, meadow, etcRelated adjectives: gramineous, verdant
3. any similar plant, such as knotgrass, deergrass, or scurvy grass
4. ground on which such plants grow; a lawn, field, etc
5. ground on which animals are grazed; pasture
6. a slang word for marijuana
7. British slang a person who informs, esp on criminals
8. short for sparrowgrass
9. get off the grass NZ informal an exclamation of disbelief
10. let the grass grow under one’s feet to squander time or opportunity
11. put out to grass
    1. to retire (a racehorse)
    2. informalto retire (a person)

verb

12. to cover or become covered with grass
13. to feed or be fed with grass
14. (tr) to spread (cloth) out on grass for drying or bleaching in the sun
15. (tr) sport to knock or bring down (an opponent)
16. (tr) to shoot down (a bird)
17. (tr) to land (a fish) on a river bank
18. (intr usually foll by on) British slang to inform, esp to the police

noun

1. Günter (Wilhelm) (ˈɡyntər). born 1927, German novelist, dramatist, and poet. His novels include The Tin Drum (1959), Dog Years (1963), The Rat (1986), Crabwalk (2002), and Peeling the Onion (2007). Nobel prize for literature 1999

n.Old English græs, gærs “herb, plant, grass,” from Proto-Germanic grasan (cf. Old Norse, Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German, German, Gothic gras, Swedish gräs), from PIE *ghros- “young shoot, sprout,” from root *ghre- “to grow, become green” (related to grow and green). As a color name (especially grass-green, Old English græsgrene) by c.1300. Sense of “marijuana” is first recorded 1938, American English. Hawaiian grass skirt attested from 1937; keep off the grass by 1850.

1. Any of a large family (Gramineae or Poaceae) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover. Wheat, maize, sugar cane, and bamboo are grasses. See more at leaf.

see don’t let the grass grow under one’s feet. In addition to the idioms beginning with grass

grass is always greener on the other side, the

grass widow

also see:

don’t let the grass grow under one’s feet

put out to grass

snake in the grass