cut one's teeth
verb1
Idiomatic To begin; to gain early experience.
- He cut his teeth on flying model airplanes as a child, so aeronautical engineering came naturally.
- Born and raised outside Copenhagen, he studied at the Royal Danish Design School, later cutting his teeth in Paris under Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel and in New York working for AD100 Hall of Famer Peter Marino.2026 May 23, Sam Cochran, “Feeling Zen”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 100:
- Related terms
- cut one's eyeteeth, make one's bones