If you were footing the bill, you wouldn't say that.

He wanted to be on equal footing with his mother.

At the very least, I want for you and I to be on equal footing.

How am I going to do this? It's about... I'm going to help you with your footing.

It spearheaded a cultural revolution in which artists like Caruso and Bessie Smith were on the same footing.

Moses said to him May I follow thee, on the footing that thou teach me something of the (Higher) Truth which thou hast been taught?

Is it a wonder to the people that We inspired a man from among them Warn mankind, and give good news to those who believe that they are on a sound footing with their Lord ? The disbelievers said, This is a manifest sorcerer.

If we keep jumping around, out of fear, out of self doubt, we are never going to land, and it's the landing, the grounding ourselves in our experiences, that allows us to gain our footing as wobbly or clumsy as we may be.

Was it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among them 'Warn the people, and give thou good tidings to the believers that they have a sure footing with their Lord'? The unbelievers say, 'This is a manifest sorcerer.'

Is it a wonder for mankind that We have inspired a man among them, saying Warn mankind and bring unto those who believe the good tidings that they have a sure footing with their Lord? The disbelievers say Lo! this is a mere wizard.

Place not the apostle's calling among you on the same footing as your calling of each other. Of a surety Allah knoweth those who slip away privately let therefore those who oppose His commandment beware lest there befall them a trial or there befall them a torment afflictive.

What! is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among themselves, saying Warn the people and give good news to those who believe that theirs is a footing of firmness with their Lord. The unbelievers say This is most surely a manifest enchanter.

It is a matter of wonderment to the mankind that we should reveal unto a man among them saying warn thou the man kind, and bear those who have believed the glad tidings that theirs shall be a sure footing. with their Lord! The infidels say verily this in a sorcerer manifest.

And maybe, if we want to be on surer footing, what we really want is a moral framework that will help guide us there, that will tell us what kinds of things are right and wrong in the first place, and how would we know in a given situation what to do.

They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they) But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks

Thousands of pack horses lie dead along the way, sometimes in bunches under the cliffs, with pack saddles and packs where they've fallen from the rock above, sometimes in tangled masses, filling the mud holes and furnishing the only footing for our poor pack animals on the march, often, I regret to say, exhausted, but still alive, a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade.