get your feet wet

Meaning

1. to start doing sth that is new for you

   At that time he was a young actor, just getting his feet wet.

In the movies · 3

• Right now I'm just getting my feet wet, trying to catch up.No Way Out1987
• You're gonna get your feet wet with a standard pickup.R.I.P.D.2013
• - Why did you tell me to spread my legs? - I didn't want you to get your feet wet.Sons of the Desert1933

From the same entry

• be rushed off your feet
• fall on your feet
• feet first
• get a foot in the door
• get off on the right foot
• have feet of clay
• have your feet on the ground
• have a foot in both camps
• have one foot in the grave
• …my foot
• on your feet
• put your best foot forward

More idioms

• go downhill
• go figure
• have bigger fish to fry
• laugh in face
• on the off chance
• out of action
• out of thin air
• that'll be the day
• within reach
• your fair share of
• be to be expected
• on shoulders