have the black ox tread on one's foot
English
Verb
have the black ox tread on one's foot
- (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