VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Cut Your Teeth on Something

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.