10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALL ON ONE'S FEET»
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... DEAD ON ONE's FEET; DON'T LET THE GRAss GROW UNDER ONE's FEET;
DRAG ONE's FEET; FALL ON ONE's FEET; GET ONE's FEET WET; GET THE
LEAD OUT (OF ONE's FEET); GET TO ONE's FEET; HOLD sOMEONE's FEET TO
...
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
fall on one's feet Füße: (immer) wieder auf die Füße fallen • Katze: eine Katze fällt
immer (wieder) auf die Füße to help s.o. to get back on hts feet Beine: jm. wieder
auf die Beine helfen • Füße: jm. wieder auf die Füße helfen not to get back on ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
... blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten. keep oneself afloat; keep one's head
above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet,
light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; ...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
... blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten. keep oneself afloat; keep one's head
above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet,
light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; ...
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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Chambers concise dictionary
at someone's feet or at the feet of someone under their spell; totally devoted to
them; in a position of submission, homage, etc. drag one's feet see under drag,
fall on one's feet see under fall, get or rise to one's feet to stand up. have one's
feet ...
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
fall into line with fall on one's feet meaning. □ The practice of wearing gowns to
attend lectures has now fallen into disuse. fall into line with pajtohem, pranoj, jam
i nje' mendje me Q It was lucky she and Bosinney got on, she seemed to ...
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
6 a unit of rhythm in veise containing any of various combinations of stressed and
unstressed syllables. 7 (pi; old) infantry. — fall on one's feet to be unexpectedly or
undeservedly lucky. — foot it 1 (coll) to walk. 2 (old) to dance. — foot the bill to ...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
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Heinemann English Dictionary
Phrases fall on one's feet, land on one's feet to be lucky or successful. find one's
feet to become independent of the help of others, get cold feet, have cold feet to
lose one's nerve or conftdence. my foot! nonsense! put one's foot down to be strict
...
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
(also fall on one's feet) [19S0s+] to survive a difficult situation. [SE fall on one's
feet, fig. use of a cat always finding its feet when it falls] Land o' Scots n. [late 19C]
heaven, [ety. unknown] land out v. see land v.2. land pike n. [mid-late 19C) (US) a
...
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... footwear. fall on one's feet to have some unexpected good luck, e$p after or
because of something bad or unpleasant: He was dismissed from his job last
year, but he really fell on his feet ~ he is now doing the same job for someone
else at a ...
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Gold Drop and US Dollar Outlook
Anyone who's ever had a brick fall on one's feet knows how much it can hurt. It's little consolidation if that brick is made of gold. What's ... «The Market Oracle, Apr 13»
