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Mashmellow Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

cut my teeth on

"I cut my teeth

on all the young

dancer roles in musicals."



what is the meaning of "cut my teeth on" thank you!



  

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key=teeth*1+0&dict=I ] cut your teeth [/url] (British, American & Australian, American) to get your first experience of a particular type of work and learn the basic skills. She cut her teeth on a local newspaper before landing a job on a national daily. (often + on )

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  • key=teeth*1+0&dict=I ] cut your teeth [/url] (British, American & Australian, American) to get your first experience of a particular type of work and learn the basic skills.
  • She cut her teeth on a local newspaper before landing a job on a national daily.
  • (often + on )
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[url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=teeth*1+0&dict=I] cut your teeth[/url]
(British, American & Australian, American)
to get your first experience of a particular type of work and learn the basic skills.
She cut her teeth on a local newspaper b
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Heh..:-)

I used this idiom in my work during an email conversation with our software supplier from Tampa (US). We talked about our programming skills and I have written to him:

I had been cutting my teeth on the Java language, before I was promoted to the .NET team.

Idiom "cut my teeth on" is cool and is being used widely.

cheers

JCD
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Thanks a lot.

That's mean I can say:"I cut my teeth on network engineer last year."

Isn't it ?
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