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Stand Time Feet Independent Succeed Learned Teacher Rushing

Idiom to stand on your own two feet
Definition to be independent; to succeed without help
Examples - You're 23 now. It's time you learned to stand on your own two feet.
- You have to let the new teacher stand on her own two feet. You can't keep rushing in every time she has a problem with a student.

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