get itchy feet

Bedeutung

to start wanting to travel or do something new

Lust bekommen, zu reisen oder etwas Neues zu beginnen.

Beispiele

1. 1After two years in the same town, I got itchy feet and applied for a job abroad.
2. 2My dad gets itchy feet every spring and starts planning a long trip.
3. 3Maria had only been back from Peru a month before she got itchy feet and started looking at flights.
4. 4If you get itchy feet in your gap year, you could teach English in Asia.
5. 5Does Ben ever get itchy feet, or is he happy to stay in one place forever?

Grammatik

Nur get ändert sich: gets, getting, got. Das Nomen feet bleibt im Plural. Die Variante have itchy feet beschreibt das Gefühl selbst, nicht seinen Beginn.