dry behind the ears
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So they got kind of upset, this female making more money than I am, and she just out of college, not even dry behind the ears.
From Scientific American
“You boys ain’t dry behind the ears yet when it comes to shootin’ scrapes.”
From Project Gutenberg
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
Sir: With all the noise about Senator John F. Kennedy's being Roman Catholic, no one has mentioned that he is only 42 years old and hardly "dry behind the ears."
From Time Magazine Archive
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