单词 | fall/land on your feet |
释义 | fall/land on your feetfall/land on your feet to get into a good situation because you are lucky, especially after being in a difficult situation 逢凶化吉,化险为夷 Don’t worry about Nina, she always falls on her feet. 别为尼娜担心,她每次都能逢凶化吉。 Examples from the Corpus fall/land on your feet• He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet.• After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet.• Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet.• Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.• However he landed on his feet.• Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet.• This is a company that tends to land on its feet. → fall/land on your feet at foot1(17) |
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