Meaning of dry behind the ears | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic

Examples

“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."”

“”When you bastards get dry behin' the ears, you'll maybe learn to let a ol' fella sleep."”

“That wearing of blinders by our intelligence agents was recently revealed by The Washington Post's columnist and editor Jim Hoagland, who is dry behind the ears, to say the least.”

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