I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel.

Something that a NY Mobster might tell a reporter when he knows that his time is limited. He's done some really outrageous shit to other gangsters, and as a result, he is a dead man. Like a moth caught on a hot light, he knows it's wrong, but the danger gives him such a charge that he really has ceased to care. A guy in this position would say this and really mean it.

"I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel." "We live this way, but we don't care."

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got off the wrong foot

a bad start when you see someone for the first time, bad impression

Sherry and I got off the wrong foot when we met for the first time

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got the foot

To be kicked.

"I heard you broke up with Sara."

"Yeah. She got the foot."