sea legs | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,nautical)The ability, when walking aboard a ship, toanticipatethe motion of thedeckso as to walksteadilywithout losing balance.to get/find one'ssea legs1840,[James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XII, inThe Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.:Lea and Blanchard,→OCLC:Jasper would find hissea-legsin a fortnight, and a twelvemonth's v'y'ge would make him a man.1842December –1844July,Charles Dickens, chapter 33, inThe Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London:Chapman and Hall,[…], published1844,→OCLC:[…]and hear poor Mr Tapley, in his wandering fancy, playing at skittles in the Dragon, making love-remonstrances to Mrs Lupin, getting hissea-legson board the Screw, travelling with old Tom Pinch on English roads, and burning stumps of trees in Eden, all at once.1869,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, inThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress;[…], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company.[…],→OCLC:Our passengers hailed from fifteen states; only a few of them had ever been to sea before; manifestly it would not do to pit them against a full-blown tempest until they had got theirsea-legson.1884,Arthur Conan Doyle,J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement‎[1]:Had a refreshing walk up and down the quarter-deck, though I have hardly found mysea-legsyet.1905,Bram Stoker,The Man‎[2]:It was fortunate for the passengers that most of them had at this period of the voyage got theirsea legs; otherwise walking on the slippery deck, that seemed to heave as the rolling of the vessel threw its slopes up or down, would have been impossible.; (idiomatic)The ability to travel by ship without becomingseasick.1890,William Booth,In Darkest England and the Way Out‎[3]:When the ship was pitching or rolling, work would be difficult; but even then, when the Colonists get theirsea-legs, and are free from the qualmishness which overtakes landsmen when first getting afloat, I cannot see why they should not engage in some form of industrial work far more profitable than yawning and lounging about the deck, to say nothing of the fact that by so doing they would lighten the expense of their transit.; (chieflyUS,rare)Synonym ofcrabsticks.; (idiomatic)The ability to partially or fully inhabit a marine environment.2021,PBS Eons: When Crocs Thrived in the Seas‎[4]:So, from the Jurassic Period to today, the problems that come with being secondarily aquatic seem to have had the same kinds of solutions. And what we've learned is that it's no easy task to get yoursea legs. But once you do, it's smooth sailing.

Examples:

EN: My sea legs are still wobbly.
ES: Mis piernas todavía me tiemblan un poco.
EN: I've still got my sea legs.
ES: Todavía tengo en mi cuerpo el balanceo del barco.
EN: I'll go freshen up bit and see if I can get rid of these sea legs.
ES: Iré a refrescarme e intentaré acostumbrarme a caminar en tierra firme.
EN: Well, we'll get the kinks out of our sea legs.
ES: Bueno, perderemos ese movimiento moviendo las piernas fuera del mar.
EN: Avast there, Captain Cook! -You got your sea legs yet?
ES: Capitán Cook, ¿ya es un lobo de mar?
EN: Well, a good Englishman should have his sea legs by now.
ES: Comamosjuntos.
EN: In the bar, he loses his sea legs.
ES: En el bar no siempre...
EN: You'll need your sea legs up there tonight, sir.
ES: Esta noche necesitará pisar firme.
EN: Four years later, Joe is a big boy, but his sea legs no good. Four years later, Joe is a big boy, but his sea legs no good.
ES: Cuatro años después, Joe era un hombre y seguía sin gustarle el mar,
ES: Cuatro años después, Joe era un hombre y seguía sin gustarle el mar,
EN: It seems I haven't found my sea legs yet.
ES: Parece que aún no he encontrado el equilibrio.
EN: You'll have your sea legs in no time.
ES: Estarás cansado del mar!
EN: I haven't quite found my sea legs yet.
ES: Todavía no me acostumbrado al balanceo.
EN: They might have sent us a captain who had his sea legs.
ES: Podían haber enviado a un verdadero lobo de mar.
EN: - Time to find your sea legs.
ES: - Hora de aprender a navegar.
EN: He seems to have got his sea legs now alright.
ES: Parece marearse un poco con el movimiento del barco.

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