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set one back on one's feet
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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