dry behind the ears

Idioms  

1. see under wet behind the ears.

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Example Sentences

"We get a thing dry behind the ears and wean it." says M.I.T.'s Dean Brown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also basking in official favor were long-nosed Dmitri Kabalevsky, Caucasus-born Lev Knipper, and aging, conservative Nicolas Miaskovsky, who was composing symphonies long before the Old Bolsheviks were dry behind the ears.

From Time Magazine Archive

When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack

Time was you batted a young smart aleck down, told him to go get dry behind the ears before he shot off his mouth.

From Eight Keys to Eden by Clifton, Mark

Young, no more than twenty-five, but very dry behind the ears.

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan