stand on your own (two) feet
informalto be able to provide all of the things you need for living without help from anyone else:
She'll have to get a job and learn to stand on her own two feet sooner or later.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unaided and working alone
- fend for yourself
- go
- go it alone idiom
- independent
- own
- self-help
- self-reliant
- self-sufficient
- single-handed
- stand
- stand-alone
- steam
- throw
- throw sb back on their own resources idiom
- unaided
- unassisted
- under your own steam idiom
- unsupported
- with your own fair hand(s) idiom
- yourself
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