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get itchy feet
USUK
to start wanting to travel or move somewhere new after staying in one place
Mainly British and informal. Used about travel, and also about wanting a new job or home.
In context
I've only been home for a month, but I'm already getting itchy feet.
After two years in the same job, he got itchy feet and moved to Singapore.
More idioms about travel
- hit the roadto leave a place and start a journey
- in the middle of nowherein a place far away from towns, shops and other people
- like a fish out of wateruncomfortable because you are in a place or situation that is new or strange to you
- live out of a suitcaseto travel so much that you never fully unpack or settle in one place
- off the beaten trackfar from the places that most tourists visit