B2idiomhealthIELTS-friendly
back on your feet
USUK
healthy and active again after an illness or injury
Often 'be/get back on your feet'. It can also describe a person or business recovering from money problems.
In context
After two weeks of rest, my grandfather is finally back on his feet.
Drink plenty of water and sleep well; you'll be back on your feet in no time.
More idioms about health
- a clean bill of healtha doctor's statement, after an examination, that someone is healthy
- butterflies in your stomacha nervous, fluttering feeling before something important
- get on someone's nervesto annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again
- go under the knifeto have a medical operation
- out of shapenot physically fit, usually because you have not exercised for a long time