have the black ox tread on one's foot

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English

Verb

have the black ox tread on one's foot

  1. (obsolete) To have trouble come upon one; to experience sorrow or misfortune.

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes
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