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stand on your own (two) feet

informal

Definition

to 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.Unaided and working alone
(Definition of stand on your own (two) feet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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