get one's feet wet
verbDefinitions
To begin gaining experience
To begin gaining experience; to tentatively try something new.
- Let the new hire do that project so she can get her feet wet.
- Why don't you try getting your feet wet on the beginner slopes.
- Thomas barely got his feet wet at the Education Department before he was sworn in nine months later as EEOC commissioner.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for get one's feet wet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA