back in the saddle

== English == === Phrase === back in the saddle Returned to one's normal, healthy, functioning state, as from an interruption or setback. 2009, "Off Track", Leslie A. Gordon, ABA Journal, Volume 95, Issue 2, pages 58-63 Eighteen months into his time off, a friend of Bean's who worked at Jaffe Raitt Heuer &; Weiss in Detroit had a large client that needed a senior attorney. Bean had not been actively looking to return to lawyering -- especially at a firm -- but the option to work part time appealed to him. " The client and I got along well and it was a nice firm, " Bean recalls. Before long, the position became full time and Bean is now a Jaffe Raitt partner. / "I'm back in the saddle," he says.