stand on one's own feet

Act or behave independently, as in You've got to learn to stand on your own feet and not always listen to your peers. [Mid-1500s]

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One had to stand on one's own feet.

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"To stand on one's own feet" Heeren finds the keynote to the discourses of Demosthenes, as of Chatham.

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Thus, at certain epochs, children part from parents, servants from masters, /protégés/ from their patrons; and, whether it succeed or not, such an attempt to stand on one's own feet, to make one's self independent, to live for one's self, is always in accordance with the will of nature.

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stand one's ground standout

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