get one's feet wet

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get one's feet wet 的定义

  1. Embark on a new venture, start into new territory. For example, I've only had a few cello lessons—I've barely gotten my feet wet. This expression alludes to the timid swimmer slowly getting into the water. [Late 1500s]

get one's feet wet 近义词

get one's feet wet

等同于 break the ice

get one's feet wet

等同于 commence

更多get one's feet wet例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  5. The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.