get feet wet Idiom, Proverb

all wet

mistaken, do not know what you are talking about You're all wet! You can't grow bananas in Saskatchewan.

get your feet wet

try to do it, attempt it, try your hand at "To become a lawyer, learn the theory; then get your feet wet."

still wet behind the ears

still quite young, the tender age of When we moved to Boston, you were still wet behind the ears.

wet behind the ears

(See still wet behind the ears)

wet the bed

urinate while in bed, urinate during sleep Some kids wet the bed because they have emotional problems.

wet your whistle

have a drink, quench your thirst If you're thirsty, have some apple cider to wet your whistle.

wet

1. to kill someone; as in wet from blood when someone is sprayed:"Now I gotta wetcha" -- Ice Cube (I'm gonna wetcha)
2. to excite a female
3. very good, excellent

wet blanket

a person or thing that keeps others from enjoying life扫兴的人或物
Don't be such a wet blanket．Come on，join the fun．不要这样令人扫兴，过来和我们一起玩。
The sudden downpour threw a wet blanket on their plans for an excursion．突然下了场倾盆大雨，把他们郊游的计划给毁了。

wet one's whistle

Idiom(s): wet one's whistle

Theme: DRINKING

to take a drink of something. (Folksy.)
• Wow, am I thirsty. I need something to wet my whistle.
• Hey, Sally! Give her something to wet her whistle.

mad as a wet hen

Idiom(s): (as) mad as a wet hen

Theme: ANGER

angry. (Folksy.)
• Bob was screaming and shouting—as mad as a wet hen.
• What you said made Mary mad as a wet hen.

get (one's) anxiety wet

To try or alpha something. I'm assured that you'll be able to drive a stick shift—you aloof charge to get your anxiety wet first.Learn more: feet, get, wet

get one's anxiety wet

Fig. to get a little first-time acquaintance with something. (Obvious accurate possibilities.) Of advance he can't do the job right. He's hardly got his anxiety wet yet. I'm attractive advanced to acquirements to drive. I can't delay to get abaft the council caster and get my anxiety wet.Learn more: feet, get, wet

get (one's) anxiety wet

To alpha a new action or job.Learn more: feet, get, wet

get one's anxiety wet, to

To adventure into new territory. The allusion actuality is to the afraid swimmer who is alert of accepting into the baptize at all. Although this accurate announcement dates alone from the aboriginal twentieth century, a agnate abstraction was bidding added than four hundred years beforehand by John Lyly in Euphues and his England (1580): “I resemble those that hauing already wet their feete, affliction not hoe deepe they wade”; in added words, already accepting gotten up one’s assumption to try article new, one is added accommodating to attempt in all the way. In The Glorious Fault (1960) Leonard Mosley accumulated two metaphors: “In aldermanic life, he [Curzon] was to be one who backward to get his anxiety wet afore chief that a address was sinking.”Learn more: feet, get

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make a break for sth or somewhere main strength and awkwardness maiden voyage made to order made to measure mad as hell mad as a wet hen lull sb into a false sense of security lower the boom on lower one's voice lower one's sights