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"finding my feet" is a perfectly usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the process of adaptively learning about a situation or environment, either literally (e.g. learning to walk) or metaphorically (e.g. getting used to a new job). For example: After moving to a new city, I have been busy finding my feet in my new environment.
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I spent much of my first year finding my feet.
No relevant verbal cliché goes unspoken ("one step at a time," "finding my feet again," "the beat goes on").
As a young father I was still finding my feet, still trying to discover who I was.
It was in "Richard II" that he "began to feel at last that I was finding my feet in Shakespeare".
2008 I'm still rather finding my feet at No 10, though my Jimmy Choos are making it all more bearable.
It was at a time when my office accommodation and staffing were still being settled and I was finding my feet within Government.
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I was just sort of finding my footing, if you will, as an activist.
The excitement of arriving in New York became a fear of never finding my footing here.
I was finding my footing, but I remember the end of those three days.
Like a lot of you, I'm still finding my way, finding my footing, day by day, step by step.
My twenties were about removing the blindfold and finding my footing that I likely lost in kindergarten when I entered the education system.
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