"_Putting your Foot into it._"--The legitimate origin of this term I have
seen thus explained. Perhaps it may pass as correct until a better be
found. According to the _Asiatic Researches_, a very curious mode of trying
the title to land is practised in Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the
disputed spot, in each of which the lawyers on either side put one of their
legs, and remain there until one of them is tired, or complains of being
stung by insects, in which case his client is defeated. An American writer
has remarked that in the United States it is generally the _client_, and
not the _lawyer_, "who puts his foot in it."