Idiom
foot voting
Meaning
Expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Many people are foot voting by moving to cities with better jobs.”
“Customers are foot voting by choosing the smaller shop instead of the big supermarket.”
“Young people often practice foot voting when they leave small towns for bigger opportunities.”
“When the local taxes became too high, many families started foot voting by moving to the neighboring county.”
“If the new gym management continues to ignore our complaints, most members will start foot voting by joining the club across the street.”
“The tech company lost its best engineers to a rival startup because they preferred foot voting over staying in a toxic office environment.”
“When the social media platform changed its privacy rules, millions of users engaged in foot voting by deleting their accounts and moving to a different app.”
“Disillusioned by the restrictive policies of their home nation, citizens engaged in foot voting by emigrating to countries that offered greater personal and economic liberty.”
Examples
simple
“Many people are foot voting by moving to cities with better jobs.”
“Customers are foot voting by choosing the smaller shop instead of the big supermarket.”
“Young people often practice foot voting when they leave small towns for bigger opportunities.”
contextual
“When the local taxes became too high, many families started foot voting by moving to the neighboring county.”
“If the new gym management continues to ignore our complaints, most members will start foot voting by joining the club across the street.”
“The tech company lost its best engineers to a rival startup because they preferred foot voting over staying in a toxic office environment.”
“When the social media platform changed its privacy rules, millions of users engaged in foot voting by deleting their accounts and moving to a different app.”
complex
“Disillusioned by the restrictive policies of their home nation, citizens engaged in foot voting by emigrating to countries that offered greater personal and economic liberty.”
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