put one foot in front of the other
idiom
: to walk especially when it is difficult
It's a long hike, but we'll get there if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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And the answer was just get up and create and make images and put one foot in front of the other.
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Olivia Horner, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2024
Bad news for Nate: One day he’s mysteriously zapped into a bizarre world where the only way out is to literally put one foot in front of the other; players learn to control each of his jammie’d legs to propel him forward in a goofy, slapstick sort of motion.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
The way to move forward now is to put one foot in front of the other.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
Successful companies tend to slowly and systematically put one foot in front of the other.
—Samuel Johnston, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
She’s ripped from a heavenly dimension by the friends who can’t survive without her, forcing her back to the toil of mortal life: dealing with what her mother left behind, working terrible jobs that paid little, struggling to put one foot in front of the other.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
But, the priest said, as long as people push forward – or put one foot in front of the other – and stay focused then life is more manageable.
—Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
Fidyka steadied himself like a skier at the start of a downhill slalom and then began—painfully, laboriously—to put one foot in front of the other.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
Some birds, for example, held the lid with their beak while others held it with their beak and left foot; some shuffled along the edge of the bin while others put one foot in front of the other.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
Olivia Horner, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2024
Bad news for Nate: One day he’s mysteriously zapped into a bizarre world where the only way out is to literally put one foot in front of the other; players learn to control each of his jammie’d legs to propel him forward in a goofy, slapstick sort of motion.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
The way to move forward now is to put one foot in front of the other.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
Successful companies tend to slowly and systematically put one foot in front of the other.
—Samuel Johnston, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
She’s ripped from a heavenly dimension by the friends who can’t survive without her, forcing her back to the toil of mortal life: dealing with what her mother left behind, working terrible jobs that paid little, struggling to put one foot in front of the other.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
But, the priest said, as long as people push forward – or put one foot in front of the other – and stay focused then life is more manageable.
—Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
Fidyka steadied himself like a skier at the start of a downhill slalom and then began—painfully, laboriously—to put one foot in front of the other.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
Some birds, for example, held the lid with their beak while others held it with their beak and left foot; some shuffled along the edge of the bin while others put one foot in front of the other.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
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