wet behind the ears

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment). idiomatic
    — [They would put] their hands behind their ears and pat the top of their heads to taunt me with the fact that I was still wet behind the ears and soft on top of the head.

词形变化

wet-behind-the-ears alternative

词源

First use appears c. 1850 in Pennsylvania, a calque of German feucht hinter den Ohren. From the drying of amniotic fluid of a baby after birth, specifically a newborn farm animal, whose ears are the last to dry, partly because it is licked dry by its mother everywhere else. Alternative forms also derive from German.
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