feet on the ground
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"You get up in morning and you put your feet on the ground and that's another day."
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
"We need to continue like this but not get carried away and keep our feet on the ground."
From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025
Other guys haven’t gotten visits in years but still find reasons to wake up, to put both feet on the ground, and, oddly enough, even to smile.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
“Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn’t try to climb over the railings,” the zoo said on Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Before I could react, he pulled me from the Jeep and set my feet on the ground.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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