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Also, land on one's feet. Overcome difficulties, be restored to a sound or stable condition. For example, Don't worry about Joe's losing his job two years in a row he always falls on his feet, or The company went bankrupt, but the following year it ... Search another word or see fall on one's feet on Thesaurus | Reference...
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fall over; [IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or lose. "Fall over hard" equates to crash and burn. [The Jargon File]; ... fall into place ... fall on ones feet...
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This page was last modified on 6 August 2009, at 05:44. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. ... Alternative form of land on one's feet.
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From the phrase fall over one's feet, meaning stumble. ... to fall over one's feet (third-person singular simple present falls over one's feet, present participle falling over one's feet, simple past fell over one's feet, past participle fallen over one's feet)
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apple-polish, be servile, bootlick, brownnose, butter up, cajole, fall all over, fall on one's knees, flatter, honey up, kiss one's feet, kiss-up, kowtow, lay it on, lick boots, massage*, oil, pay court, play up to, scratch one's back, stroke*, suck up to, ... Search another word or see kissing ones feet on Dictionary...
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The sentences: A policeman has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down an alley after someone he wants to talk to.;
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The Fallen Ones; cast: ... If it were just that the writing and special effects were awful (the film makes a giant using the same technique as Sunday morning favourite Land Of The Giants, namely putting a camera at someone's feet and filming upwards) then this film could be easily dismissed as laughably bad.
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I got another note telling about some moron who dropped (a) a cat and (b) a chicken out of a Cessna at 800 feet to see what would happen. The cat survived. The chicken didn't. ... Is it true cats always land unharmed on their feet, no matter how far they fall?
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The Fallen Ones opens with a campy, thoroughly absurd sequence that effectively primes the viewer for the lunacy that is to follow, although nothing can quite prepare us for a sequence late in the film that finds Robert Wagner engaged in a fist-fight with a mummy.
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She has her share of war stories, but prefers to focus on the ones that represent successful teaching experiences. “A resident saw a little girl who complained that it hurt when she went to the bathroom,” she says. ... But people skills and being light on one’s feet are among the hallmarks of emergency medicine.
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