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dry behind the ears

dry behind the ears adjective: seasoned or experienced; mature, especially with respect to judgment.

Adjective

dry behind the ears

  1. (idiomatic) 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?1850, Springfield Rep., (Whig.), Daily (Columbus) Ohio Statesman, 9 May, p. 3, col. 4
    • 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.1910, Jack London, chapter 3, in Burning Daylight

dry behind the ears meaning in Bengali

dry behind the ears in Bengali

অভিজ্ঞ, দক্ষ, পরিণত

Examples of dry behind the ears in a sentence

  • "You're past twenty-one," he said, "an' dry behind the ears."1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31...
  • 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.2001 October 22, William Safire, “Essay: Advance The Story”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Oct 2010:

Antonyms of dry behind the ears

Questions about dry behind the ears

What does dry behind the ears mean?
Dry behind the ears means seasoned or experienced; mature, especially with respect to judgment.
What is dry behind the ears in Bengali?
Dry behind the ears in Bengali is অভিজ্ঞ, দক্ষ, পরিণত. See Dry behind the ears meaning in Bengali.
How do you use dry behind the ears in a sentence?
"You're past twenty-one," he said, "an' dry behind the ears."
What part of speech is dry behind the ears?
Dry behind the ears is an adjective.

Words near dry behind the ears in the dictionary

  1. dry beans
  2. dry beat
  3. dry beaten
  4. dry beating
  5. dry beats
  6. dry behind the ears
  7. dry beriberi
  8. dry biscuit
  9. dry biscuits
  10. dry bite
  11. dry bites

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