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Idioms and Phrases
see under jump all over ; for land on one's feet , see fall on one's feet .Example Sentences
Whatever the outcome, this case reminds us that rights do not exist in the abstract; they land on people.
The council leased the land on which the tree stood to the Toby Carvery.
What’s this new executive order directing the Department of Defense to take over huge amounts of public land on the border?
There are now some 200 of them around the globe, representing 160,000 square kilometers of land on Earth from which you can see clear night skies, glittering heavens, the full starry span of the Milky Way rarely visible from cities or even the average over-illuminated suburb.
Yet through all the retirements and the restlessness, the rejections and the reincarnations, Parker has always managed to land on his feet.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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