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What does the idiom find your bearings or get your bearings mean?
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∙ 6y ago
An idiom relies on a once well-known action to express something as true but in a shorthand way. People do not walk around constantly now by using a compass, or stars, or the moss on the sides of trees. Yet, people used those methods in the past to "get / find their bearings". Now, "bearings" does not directly refer to a specific method, but as an idiom it now refers to those once well-known activities.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 6y agoBearings are your compass coordinates - where you are and where you're headed. If you find or get them, you know where you're going, either literally or figuratively.
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