find one's feet
Get one's bearings
To find one's feet is to become comfortable and competent in a new situation.
Someone starting a job, moving to a new country, or adjusting to college eventually finds their feet—gaining confidence and learning to navigate unfamiliar territory: Give her a few weeks to find her feet before expecting too much.
- settleReach final terms
- fresh startOpportunity to restart unburdened
- new jobRecently acquired employment
- walkTravel on foot
- orientAlign to surroundings
adjust · self-assurance · stand · balance · learn · familiarize · recovery · transition · perseverance · step · newcomer · empowerment · adapt · sea legs · acclimate · grow · fortitude · stabilize
find one's feetflounder
Struggle awkwardly, or seafood
struggle · lose one's way · founder · lose one's bearings · sink
find one's feetlose one's bearings
Become spatially confused
fall apart · come undone · crumble · founder · stumble
find one's feetlose one's way
Fail to find direction
fall apart · come undone · unravel · regress · backslide
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