Meaning:
To learn basic skills in a field
Examples:
- She had cut her teeth at local radio stations, but made her name on a reality show.
- Actors who cut their teeth on low-budget films
- Both reporters cut their journalistic teeth on the same provincial newspaper.
- He cut his teeth at places like Claridges.
- The entrepreneurial owner cut his teeth on a Schweizer 300 which he still owns.
- Rahul and Rohan both cut their teeth on the old hot-metal newspaper production process.