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dry behind the ears

Idioms  
  1. see under wet 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

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

"Humph," she said, "when you git dry behind the ears you won't be so peart."

From Project Gutenberg