wet behind the ears
Senso (Inglese)
Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment).
Concetti
Opposto di
dry behind the ears
sinonimi
smelling of milk
to be half-baked
Traduzioni
inexpert
nach Milch reichend
sans expérience
nat achter de oren
inexpertoEtimologia (Inglese)
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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