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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:
I walked with my feet on the ground, but my head was in the clouds, as light as any of them.
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.
 
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