cut your teeth (on something)EXPERIENCEto get your first experience of doing something and learn the basic skills (从某事上)获得初步经验 Both reporters cut their journalistic teeth on the same provincial newspaper. 两名记者都从同一份当地报纸获得了最初的新闻工作经验。
cut your teeth (on something)• He cut his teeth at places like Claridges; the Carlton, Cannes.• The entrepreneurial owner cut his teeth on a Schweizer 300 which he still owns.• Sutton and Packford both cut their teeth on the old hot-metal newspaper production process.
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