try one's wings

English

Verb

try one's wings (third-person singular simple present tries one's wings, present participle trying one's wings, simple past and past participle tried one's wings)

  1. Synonym of spread one's wings.
    • 2004, Peter Mommsen, Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold, page 7:
      We're all in our twenties; we've all been trying our wings and making mistakes. Now we find that we're all heading in the same direction.
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