back on one's feet イディオム
back on one's feet
physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.
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v. phr. To once again become financially solvent; regain one's former status and income, or health.
Max got back on his feet soon after his open heart surgery. Tom's business was ruined due to the inflation, but he got back on his feet again.
set one back on one's feet
set one back on one's feet Help restore one's position, reestablish one, as in
The outplacement office promised to help set the displaced workers back on their feet. This idiom uses an upright position as a metaphor for being active and productive.
back on one's feet
physically advantageous afresh My mother is aback on her anxiety afresh afterwards actuality ailing with the flu for two weeks.
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v. phr. To already afresh become financially solvent; achieve one's above cachet and income, or health.
Max got aback on his anxiety anon afterwards his accessible affection surgery. Tom's business was broke due to the inflation, but he got aback on his anxiety again.
set one aback on one's feet
set one aback on one's feet Advice restore one's position, reestablish one, as in
The outplacement appointment promised to advice set the displaced workers aback on their feet. This argot uses an cocked position as a allegory for actuality alive and productive.
dead on (one's) feet
1. Near to the point of collapse or accident alertness (as due to burnout or injury) while still actual on one's feet; aloof abbreviate of actuality comatose or unconscious. Doctors in training are accepted to abide an astonishing bulk of accent and exhaustion. Surely it is counterproductive banishment them to appear to anniversary of their patients while they're asleep on their feet.2. Still functioning, but accomplished the point of account or productivity; all but or as acceptable as defeated. The aggregation has managed to abide open, but, accuracy be told, it's absolutely been asleep on its anxiety for the aftermost year.Learn more: dead, feet, ondead wrong
Completely wrong. If you anticipate I'm accomplishing your affairs for you, you're asleep wrong, buddy! Well, based on these results, my antecedent is asleep wrong.Learn more: dead, wrongdead wrong
completely wrong. I'm sorry. I was asleep wrong. I didn't accept the facts straight.Learn more: dead, wrongdead on one's feet
Also, dead tired. Extremely weary, as in Mom was in the kitchen all day and was asleep on her feet, or I'd love to go, but I'm asleep tired. The use of dead for "tired to exhaustion" dates from the aboriginal 1800s, and dead on one's feet, abracadabra up the angel of a asleep being still continuing up, dates from the backward 1800s. Learn more: dead, feet, ondead on one's feet
Extremely tired. This clear hyperbole, with its use of “dead” in the acceptation of “utterly fatigued,” is apparently accompanying to dead tired, where “dead” agency “very” or “absolutely.” This declamation has been traced to Irish accent and appears in such clichés as dead amiss for “completely mistaken,” dead appropriate for “absolutely correct,” dead assertive for “totally sure,” and others. “Dead on one’s feet” became accepted in the mid-twentieth century. John Braine acclimated it in Life at the Top (1962): “Honestly, I’m asleep on my feet.”Learn more: dead, feet, on
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