land legs
the ability to adjust one's sense of balance and motion to walking on land, as after a sea journey or flight:It took the astronauts some time to regain their land legs after the long space mission.
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How to use land legs in a sentence
Neither of us have got our land legs yet, as we found yesterday while fighting the penguins.
The Land of Fire | Mayne ReidStamping the length of the dock to regain his land legs, he returned to meet Doctor Merchant, who had hastened down to the dock.
Terry | Charles Goff ThomsonAnd then he goes for a spell to sea—for after all, he needs sea legs as well as land legs.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights | Kelly MillerStryker, awkward on his land-legs, stumbled and fell in an ill-calculated attempt to hoist himself hastily back into the vehicle.
The Black Bag | Louis Joseph VanceBut it did not take him long to recover his land legs and appetite.
The Faith of Men | Jack London
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