| 单词 | to cut one's milk teeth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut one's milk teeth 2. figurative. to cut one's milk teeth: to acquire initial practice or experience of an activity, organization, etc. Cf. to cut a tooth at cut v. 39. ΚΠ 1875 Ladies' Repository Apr. 316/2 Elevated too soon from a dependent position.., Maurice warned me on several occasions. ‘Take care, little one!.. Thou hast, as yet, only cut thy milk teeth.’ 1911 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 25 708 German land tax reformers are inclined to lament that the new law has ‘no teeth in it’. A fairer statement would be that it has simply cut its milk teeth and may be expected to develop mature molars and incisors later. 1923 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 28 415 The Germans have probably cut as many of the milk teeth of social science as the scholars of any nation, but wisdom teeth are far in the future. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. iv. 81 She was still a probationer, cutting her milk-teeth in Registry. 2000 Red Herring Feb. 145/1 It's here that I cut my milk teeth. I learned two very important lessons. < as lemmas |
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