dry behind the ears
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Young, no more than twenty-five, but very dry behind the ears.
From Project Gutenberg
You might have an LLM, but are you dry behind the ears yet?”
From Inc
"We get a thing dry behind the ears and wean it." says M.I.T.'s Dean Brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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"Humph," she said, "when you git dry behind the ears you won't be so peart."
From Project Gutenberg
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