wet behind the ears

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment).

Gegenteil von
dry behind the ears
Übersetzungen

inexpert

sans expérience

alle prime armi

muovere i primi passi

essere un novellino

nat achter de oren

Etymologie (Englisch)

First use appears c. 1850 in Pennsylvania, a calque of German feucht hinter den Ohren. From the drying of amniotic fluid of a baby after birth, specifically a newborn farm animal, whose ears are the last to dry, partly because it is licked dry by its mother everywhere else. Alternative forms also derive from German.

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