what does "getting under everyone’s feet"mean?
“Yeah, well, I’d pretty much designed the range for her, so having to shoot around a fucking pregnancy wouldn’t have been funny. And I could just imagine Cuckoo going silly afterwards, throwing it all in, not wanting to leave the fucking baby. She was the type; always looking for people to love, for a surrogate family. Those Bristows fucked her up good. They only adopted her as a toy for Yvette, who is the scariest bitch in the world.”
“In what way?”
“Possessive. Morbid. Didn’t want to let Cuckoo out of her sight in case she died, like the kid she’d been bought to replace. Lady Bristow used to come to all the shows, getting under everyone’s feet, till she got too ill. And there was an uncle, who treated Cuckoo like scum until she started pulling in big money. He got a bit more respectful then. They all know the value of a buck, the Bristows.”
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"Getting under someone's feet" just means that you are inhibiting the productivity of others because you aren't essential to the task.
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It means that she was disruptive to the show. She caused more problems that she solved and basically just slowed everybody down.
You can imagine trying to walk over ground with a lot of rocks in it; You'll have to move slowly and you'll probably be a little bit annoyed too. That's what the idiom is referring to.
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