nursery slopes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"I routinely ask my patients how fast they were going," he says as we sit in an outdoor cafe watching the ski schools gather on the nursery slopes.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2014
Oliver Golding, Kyle Edmund, George Morgan, Luke Bambridge and Liam Broady show promise — but they are on the nursery slopes of their careers and a long way from breaking into the top 100.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2013
Exam halls are the nursery slopes of dishonesty; from there it is an adult hike to bilking the boss on expenses, turning that insurance claim into a lucrative sob story, or flogging dodgy financial assets.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2010
Spare clothing should invariably be carried on any run beyond the nursery slopes as, in case of an accident and delay in fetching help, a runner who is hurt may be badly frost-bitten.
From Ski-running by Furse, Katharine Symonds
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