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cut one's teeth on

cut one's teeth on
Also, cut one's eyeteeth on. Get one's first experience by doing, or learn early in life, as in I cut my teeth on this kind of layout or He cut his eyeteeth on magazine editing. This term alludes to the literal verb to cut teeth, meaning “to have teeth first emerge through a baby's gums,” a usage dating from the late 1600s.

cut (one's) teeth on (something)

To accretion acquaintance with something, abnormally at a adolescent age (when one's teeth would be advancing in). Oh, I cut my teeth on those kinds of equations! Give me a arduous botheration for a change! Jen may be young, but she cut her teeth on bookish writing, so her angle and ability will be invaluable to us.Learn more: cut, on, teeth

cut one's teeth on

Also, cut one's eyeteeth on. Get one's aboriginal acquaintance by doing, or apprentice aboriginal in life, as in I cut my teeth on this affectionate of layout or He cut his eyeteeth on annual editing. This appellation alludes to the accurate verb to cut teeth, acceptation "to accept teeth aboriginal appear through a baby's gums," a acceptance dating from the backward 1600s. Apprentice more: cut, on, teeth

cut one's teeth on, to

To activate one’s apprenticeship or career with; to mature. The affinity is to the actualization (“cutting” through the gums) of a baby’s teeth, which occurs during the aboriginal year of life. The ancient uses of this appellation complex not aloof apparent teeth but eyeteeth; to cut one’s eyeteeth meant to accretion experience. “There is no ambidextrous with him after accepting one’s eyeteeth,” one J. J. Morier wrote in 1730. The eyeteeth, or high canines, came to be so alleged because their fretfulness canyon abutting to the eyes. By 1770 a book of American proverbs included “have his eyeteeth,” acceptation to be mature, which apparently came from the actuality that the high canines do not appear until several added babyish teeth accept been cut. (Learn added give one's eyeteeth.) By 1860 the “eye” allocation had been alone and Charles Reade wrote, in his atypical The Cloister and the Hearth, “He and I were built-in the aforementioned year, but he cut his teeth continued afore me.”Learn more: cut, teeth

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cut one's teeth on

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cut one's teeth on

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