have your feet on the ground

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have a sensible and realistic attitude to life

   Dimitri, keep your feet on the ground when you're talking to me.

   Why can t you people ever keep your feet on the ground

In the movies · 3

• From now on, we keep our feet on the ground.Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971
• Dimitri, keep your feet on the ground when you're talking to me.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
• Why can t you people ever keep your feet on the groundThe Mummy Returns2001

Learn it in full scenes

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971
  • Grandpa Joe Tells the Factory Legend
  • Mr. Turkentine's Science Class
  • Charlie Opens His Birthday Wonka Bar
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
  • Major Kong's Pep Talk
  • General Turgidson Dodges Calls
  • Mandrake Confronts General Ripper

From the same entry

• be rushed off your feet
• fall on your feet
• feet first
• get a foot in the door
• get off on the right foot
• get your feet wet
• have feet of clay
• have a foot in both camps
• have one foot in the grave
• …my foot
• on your feet
• put your best foot forward

More idioms

• have your work cut out
• i beg to differ
• it is just as well
• keep quiet about
• keep your options open
• kill time
• lay a finger on
• lose your cool
• not far off
• play by the rules
• pull the wool over eyes
• put the record straight