back on one's feet
*back on one's feet
1. Lit. standing up again after a fall. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.)
She struggled to get back on her feet after she fell.
2. Fig. recovered from an illness and out of one's sickbed. (*Typically:be ~; get ~.)
I will go back to work as soon as I get back on my feet.
I want to get back on my feet as soon as possible.
3. Fig. recovered from anything, especially financial problems. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.)
I can't afford to buy a car until I get a job and get back on my feet.
I'll get back on my feet as soon as I start working again.
热门单词
- act tough on so
- address oneself to so
- adhere
- adopt sth as sth
- a double whammy
- a dressing-down
- against so's will
- after the fact
- a growth experience
- a hand in sth
- A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- ail
- a kick in the ass
- a knee-jerk reaction
- a (little) short on one end
- all kinds of so or sth
- all over town
- All's fair in love and war.
- a lot of nerve
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.