Daily life

find your feet

become confident in a new situation

To gradually become comfortable and confident in a new place, job, or situation.

B2 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

How's life in Seoul?

It's exciting, but I'm still finding my feet.

Play the conversation

I found my feet after a few weeks in the new office.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: find my foot

Say: find my feet

Use the plural “feet” in this idiom, even when talking about one person.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

find your feet; find my/his/her feet

Your turn: say it out loud

I found my feet after a few weeks in the new office.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

find your feet

become confident in a new situation

“I found my feet after a few weeks in the new office.”

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