try one's hand
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Attempt to do something for the first time, as in I thought I'd try my hand at snorkeling . This idiom uses try in the sense of “ascertain by experiment or effort,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.
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Also, try one's luck . Take a chance doing something, as in We thought we'd try our luck at getting a hotel room at the last minute .
Example Sentences
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To try one’s hand at it might do well enough, now and then, to spice an otherwise luxurious life, but as a steady diet the thing was too unrelenting.
From The Camerons of Highboro by Gilchrist, Beth Bradford
The materials necessary to try one's hand at modelling are very inexpensive.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various
Promotion, however, and the invitation to try one's hand at some greater venture, do not come automatically to an officer because of the onset of war.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
It would be unnatural not to try one's hand.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
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