dry behind the ears
dry behind the ears
Mature; well experienced in some situation or for some role. (Often used in the negative.) You boys can't enlist for the army, you aren't even dry behind the ears yet! Nobody dry behind the ears is going to apply for this job—the pay is too low. Listen, I refuse to have anyone my team who isn't dry behind the ears. If you like to blame and pout, there's no place for you here.
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dry behind the ears
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
References in classic literature
When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't
dry behind the ears yet.
I'm
dry behind the ears, an' maybe I've learned a few things I oughtn't to before I knew you.
"Not yet
dry behind the ears and just old enough to buy a round of drinks, but old enough to die for his country and for you."
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