back on one's feet
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Our social safety net is weak and once one finds themselves living on the street, I can only imagine how tremendously hard it must be to get back on one's feet and find a job leading to having a home to live in, health insurance to protect them and so on.
From New York Times
"Firms have their own continuity plans, and those typically address how to get back on one's feet after such a disruption quickly without losing clients or business."
From Los Angeles Times
The protocol is for the supine to get back on one’s feet and glide around the outside of the oval at three-quarter speed.
From New York Times
By the end of Monday’s service, the most humiliating of Frazier’s ring defeats — a six-knockdown loss to George Foreman that was immortalized by Howard Cosell’s shouts of “Down goes Frazier” — had become a broader rallying cry of resilience and climbing back on one’s feet.
From New York Times
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