🗓️ Idiom: Find Your Feet (verb)
💬 Meaning
- To become comfortable and confident in a new situation.
- To learn how to manage after starting something new.
🧠 Example Sentences
- It took her a few weeks to find her feet in her new role as project manager.
- Graduates often need time to find their feet when they enter the workplace.
- After the company restructured, employees had to find their feet again.
🏛️ Origin
The idiom comes from the idea of learning to stand or walk steadily. In English, it has been used since at least the 1800s to describe someone adjusting to a new situation, much like a child learning to walk for the first time.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
It can take time to _______ your feet when starting a new job.
Answer
find
2. Multiple choice:
What does “find your feet” mean?
a) To search for shoes
b) To become comfortable in a new situation
c) To walk faster
Answer
b) To become comfortable in a new situation
3. Change the sentence using “find your feet”:
“He needed a few months to adjust to the company culture.”
Answer
He needed a few months to find his feet in the company culture.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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