To avoid visiting/ to keep away from…/ to make one's legs scrce from his hoese
We are prevented from visiting a certain place (to cherish means to make it dear or rare).
("Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he be filled with you and hate you" - Proverbs 17, and also: "Those who deal in righteousness recognize him as a good man, and all will know that he is a coward who lies on his dinars, and they have withdrawn their foot from his house" - Mordecai ben Yehezkel/ Book of Acts, Part Four, The Poor and the Miserly Collector, 52, And so: "Riklin appeared in our house, for the first time since then we asked him whether he would rather cherish his feet than our feet" - Feathers, 32)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הוֹקִיר אֶת רַגְלָיו
Definition (Hebrew)
נִמְנַע מִלְּבַקֵּר בְּמָקוֹם מְסֻיָּם (הוֹקִיר מַשְׁמָע עָשָׂה אוֹתוֹ יָקָר אוֹ נָדִיר).
("הֹקַר רַגְלְךָ מִבֵּית רֵעֶךָ פֶּן יִשְׂבָּעֲךָ וּשְׂנֵאֶךָ"- מִשְׁלֵי כֹּה יז, וְכֵן:"הָעוֹסְקִים בִּצְדָקָה הִכִּירוּ אוֹתוֹ הֵיטֵב, וְכֻלָּם יָדְעוּ שֶׁהוּא עַכְבָּר הַשּׁוֹכֵב עַל דִּינָרָיו, וְהוֹקִירוּ אֶת רַגְלָם מִבֵּיתוֹ"- מָרְדְּכַי בֶּן יְחֶזְקֵאל/ סֵפֶר הַמַּעֲשִׂיּוֹת חֵלֶק רְבִיעִי, הֶעָנִי וְהַמּוֹכְסָן הַקַּמְצָן,52, וְכֵן:"הוֹפִיעַ רִיקְלִין בְּבֵיתֵנוּ,לָרִאשׁוֹנָה מֵאָז בִּקְּשָׁה מִמֶּנּוּ אִמָּא לְהוֹקִיר אֶת רַגְלָיו מַד' אַמּוֹת שֶׁלָּנוּ"- נוֹצוֹת, 32)