try one's wings en · VERB
Meanings
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Synonym of spread one's wings.
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.
2004, Peter Mommsen, Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold, page 7:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| trying one's wings | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tried one's wings | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tried one's wings | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| tries one's wings | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |