get one’s wings Idiom, Proverb

with wings

to take out, to take with you, to go """Can I take your order?"" ""I'll have a Big Mac, a large fries and a Coke - with wings."""

waiting in the wings

Idiom(s): waiting in the wings

Theme: PREPARATION - READY

ready or prepared to do something, especially to take over someone else's job or position. (From waiting at the side of the stage to go on.)
• Mr. Smith retires as manager next year, and Mr. Jones is just waiting in the wings.
• Jane was waiting in the wings, hoping that a member of the hockey team would drop out and she would get a place on the team.

try one's wings

Idiom(s): try (out) one's wings

Theme: TRYING

to try to do something one has recently become qualified to do. (Like a young bird uses its wings to try to fly.)
• John just got his driver's license and wants to borrow the car to try out his wings.
• I learned to skin-dive, and I want to go to the seaside to try my wings.
• She was eager to try out her wings.

take sb under one's wings

Idiom(s): take sb under one's wing(s)

Theme: MANAGE

to take over and care for a person.
• John wasn't doing well in geometry until the teacher took him under her wing.
• I took the new workers under my wings, and they learned the job in no time.

clip one's wings

Idiom(s): clip one's wings

Theme: CONTROL

to restrain someone; to reduce or put an end to a teenager's privileges. (Informal.)
• You had better learn to get home on time, or I will clip your wings.
• My mother clipped my wings. I can't go out tonight.

Time has wings.

Time goes by quickly.

Swings and roundabouts

If something's swings and roundabouts, it has about as many disadvantages as it has advantages.

clip one's wings|clip|wing|wings

v. phr. To limit or hold you back, bring you under control; prevent your success. When the new president tried to become dictator, the generals soon clipped his wings. Jim was spending too much time on dates when he needed to study so his father stopped his allowance; that clipped his wings.

sprout wings|sprout|wings

v. phr. 1. To enter the stage after a period of development when wings appear (said of larvae that turn into butterflies). The dragonflies suddenly sprouted wings and are flying all about in the park. 2. To become good and virtuous (as if airborne). Joe has helped many colleagues in need; he seems to have sprouted wings.

try one's wings|try|wing|wings

v. phr. To try out a recently acquired ability. Marjorie just had her twelfth French lesson and wants to try her wings by speaking with our visitors from Paris.

get (one's) wings

1. To access one's pilot's license. I'm activity to ask the pilot how continued it takes for addition to get their wings.2. slang To become absorbed to drugs. Hey man, you bigger be accurate application that stuff—you don't appetite to get your wings.3. slang To use heroin for the aboriginal time. Once I got my wings, it wasn't continued afore I was absorbed to the stuff.Learn more: get, wing

get one’s wings

tv. to use abundant drugs for the aboriginal time; to accomplish in acceptable a biologic addict. (Drugs.) Gert got her wings afterwards bribery about with being for a continued time. Learn more: get, wing

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