keep your footing

A simple balance exercise that will help you keep your footing on the trail is the front leg lift.

But it's important to keep your footing.

"Hold on to your rope, keep your footing, let yourself swing out--that's it.

'Just try to keep your footing.'

In fact, if you're at all like me, you're trying to keep your footing out in midstream, with the water level always dangerously close to your nostrils.

The thin skin of earth over the limestone turned promptly into a slippery grease, and as you were always walking on a slope it was impossible to keep your footing.

It's always a hoot to crawl around the turns of the staircase and try and keep your footing on the un-even stones, worn away by thousands of visitors feet.

Being married, for many of the characters in Hester Kaplan's broody debut collection of stories, is a lot like trying to keep your footing while standing in a murky river.