land legs

plural noun

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of land legs¹

First recorded in 1870–75; on the model of sea legs

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River — it’s time to celebrate and get your land legs back.

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The vertebrates that did venture on land were still getting their land legs.

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First, I was just a lad of 39 when I wrote the above-referenced op-ed; practically a baby, a spring chicken, a tadpole with little nubs of cynical land legs just beginning to show.

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The others - the Brits, a Spaniard and a Portuguese - got visas for a month, allowing them to restock with fresh food and regain their land legs.

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She feels dizzy and disoriented, can’t eat and can’t find her land legs.

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