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单词 to feel one's feet
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to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)
P3. to feel one's feet (also legs, wings): to be conscious of one's abilities; to be at ease or comfortable in oneself; (more generally) to be firmly established or settled in a particular environment or situation. Occasionally also: (of a child or young animal) to be able to stand or walk. Cf. to find one's feet at find v. Phrases 3.
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the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] > be conscious of or develop one's powers
to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579
to find one's feet1977
the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] > be calm or composed
to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > feel or be confident [verb (intransitive)]
wit1297
to know one's own mind1658
to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1889
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. So flew Virgile, as not yet well feeling his wings.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia viii. 427 Give me leave to come leisurely to London, that in that time I may feel my Legs, and try how agreeable the natural Sweets of England by degrees may be.
a1776 J. Griffith Jrnl. Life, Trav., & Labours in Work of Ministry (1779) 28 They..gave me full opportunity to make proof of my ministry, and to feel my feet therein.
1860 Punch 2 June 220/2 That little tiny tottering thing [sc. a baby] just learning to feel its legs.
1881 Daily Tel. 27 Dec. It was not until the last act that he ‘felt his legs’.
1889 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 217 Trees put in now cannot be expected to succeed as well as those that are already beginning to ‘feel their feet’.
1912 Ld. Redesdale Let. 10 May in E. Gosse Life A. C. Swinburne (1917) (App. I) 320 It was at Eton that he began to feel his wings.
1932 C. Clark Shakespeare & National Char. xxii. 274 Englishmen..were beginning to feel their feet in the new paths of exploration and discovery.
2007 M. J. Staples Price of Freedom i. 13 Lots of women are beginning to feel their feet these days, and I'm one of them.
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