feet on the ground

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your feet on the ground

a realistic understanding of your own ideas, actions, and decisions It is hard to keep your feet on the ground when you suddenly become famous.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form both feet on the ground: She's a woman with both feet on the ground, who knows what's what.

See also: feet, ground

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When he came to himself, he began to cry and shriek at the top of his lungs, stamping his feet on the ground and wailing all the while: The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context I walked with my feet on the ground, but my head was in the clouds, as light as any of them. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context They begin their concert by stamping their feet on the ground, and playing gently on their instruments; but when they have heated themselves by degrees, they leave off drumming, and fall to leaping, dancing, and clapping their hands, at the same time straining their voices to the utmost pitch, till at length they have no regard either to the tune or the pauses, and seem rather a riotous than a religious assembly. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context			feel it beneath feel like feel like a million feel like a new person feel like doing feel oats feel of feel on top of the world feel out feel out of things feel pinched feel sick to stomach feel somehow about feel the pinch feel up feel up to feel way feel with feeling feeling no pain feeling okay feeling okay? feeling puny feet feet of clay feet on the ground fell fellow felt female of the species is more deadly than the male fence fence an animal in fence in fence off fence out fend fend for fend off fender fender bender ferret out ferry ferry across ferry around fess up festoon with fetch fetch in fetch out of fetch up fetch up at			fees tails FEESA Feese Feese FEESP FEESS FEESST FEEST feet feet feet feet feet feet feet Feet Above Mean Sea Level Feet Above Sea Level Feet and Legs Feet binding Feet Forward feet of clay feet of clay feet of clay feet of clay feet of clay feet of clay Feet of Flames Feet of Fresh Water Feet of Seawater Feet on Street feet on the ground Feet on the Street Feet Per Day Feet Per Hour Feet Per Mile Feet Per Minute Feet Per Nautical Mile Feet Per Revolution Feet per second Feet Per Second Per Second Feet Up, Take a Break Feet Zoom Level Feet-binding Feet/-2 Feet/-3 Feet^2 Feet^3 Feet² Feet³ Feetbinding Feeteessee Feeteessee feetfirst Feetham Family Function Survey Feetless Feetsinkers & Friends

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