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dry behind the ears

adj

Definitions

  1. Seasoned or experienced

    Seasoned or experienced; mature, especially with respect to judgment.

    • Why, you irreclaimable donkey, don’t you know the “notice” was an advertisement? When will you get dry behind the ears?
    • When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet. He never was no kid. He was born a full-grown man.
    • "You're past twenty-one," he said, "an' dry behind the ears."

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