get your sea legs

get your sea legs
get (your) sea legs to get used to a new situation.

After graduating from college he went to Chicago to get his sea legs by working in radio.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of getting used to being on a moving ship

New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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