find your feet

find your feet
find your feet phrase
to start to feel confident and able to deal with something

For the first few months I had trouble finding my feet.

Thesaurus: to be, or to become happy or happiersynonym
Main entry: find

* * *

find your feet
: to start to be comfortable in a new situation : to begin to be confident or successful

They quickly found their feet in their adopted country.

I was away for a long time, so it will take me a while to find my feet again.

• • •
Main Entry: ↑foot

* * *

find your ˈfeet idiom
to become able to act independently and with confidence

•

I only recently joined the firm so I'm still finding my feet.

Main entry: ↑findidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • find your feet — find (your) feet to become familiar with a new place or situation. It s important to give new students a chance to find their feet …   New idioms dictionary

  • find your feet — When you are finding your feet, you are in the process of gaining confidence and experience in something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • find your feet —    When you are finding your feet, you are in the process of gaining confidence and experience in something.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • find your feet — to start to feel confident and able to deal with something For the first few months I had trouble finding my feet …   English dictionary

  • World at Your Feet — Single infobox Name = World at Your Feet Artist = Embrace from Album = This New Day Released = 5 June 2006 Format = 7 , CD Recorded = 2006 Genre = Alternative Length = 3:39 Label = Independiente Producer = Youth, Embrace Chart position = #3 (UK… …   Wikipedia

  • find feet — find (your) feet to become familiar with a new place or situation. It s important to give new students a chance to find their feet …   New idioms dictionary

  • find — find1 W1S1 [faınd] v past tense and past participle found [faund] [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(get by searching)¦ 2¦(see by chance)¦ 3¦(discover state of somebody/something)¦ 4¦(do something without meaning to)¦ 5¦(learn something by study)¦ 6¦(think/feel)¦… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • find — 1 /faInd/ past tense and past participle found /faUnd/ verb (T) 1 BY SEARCHING to discover or see something that you have been searching for : I can t find the car keys. | Let s hope we can find a parking space. | No one has found a solution to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • find — find1 [ faınd ] (past tense and past participle found [ faund ] ) verb transitive *** ▸ 1 discover (by searching) ▸ 2 get something ▸ 3 experience emotion etc. ▸ 4 have as opinion ▸ 5 make formal decision ▸ 6 have enough of something ▸ + PHRASES… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • find — I UK [faɪnd] / US verb [transitive] Word forms find : present tense I/you/we/they find he/she/it finds present participle finding past tense found UK [faʊnd] / US past participle found *** 1) to discover something, or to see where it is by… …   English dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”