wet behind the ears

Meaning: (idiomatic)Inexperienced; justbeginning;immature(especially injudgment).Synonym:green behind the ears,[1]Antonym:dry behind the ears1903August 2, “The Boy Whose Parents Wanted Him to Be Useful”, inChicago Tribune, retrieved5 October 2010, page B2:[They would put] their hands behind their ears and pat the top of their heads to taunt me with the fact that I was stillwet behind the earsand soft on top of the head.1950January 13, Roger Appleton, “Police to End Teen-Age Gambling: Strike at Pool Hall Hangouts”, inOttawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved5 October 2010, page18:Every week day, pool rooms are filled with scores of boys still "wet behind the ears" who have no business anywhere but in the classroom.1991July 15, Dick Thompson, “The Man with the Plan”, inTime:Now, here was the freshly minted FDA commissioner, stillwet behind the earsat 39.2004September 8, Jarrett Bell, “Bengals' Kitna 'classy' about losing job to Palmer”, inUSA Today, retrieved5 October 2010:"These young whippersnappers are stillwet behind the ears."

Examples:

EN: - You're still wet behind the ears.
ES: - Todavía tienes mojadas las orejas
EN: He's still wet behind the ears. Doesn't know what it's about.
ES: - Es muy niño no entiende nada - ¿Y eso qué tiene que ver?
EN: No college boy still wet behind the ears is gonna bust us up.
ES: No será un colegial aún en la cuna el que nos separará.
EN: - I'm not wet behind the ears
ES: No soy un crío.
EN: Just a simple guy, you said, still wet behind the ears lot of junk about American ideals.
ES: Que yo era un tipo sencillo, un novato a quien engañan con esas tonterías de los ideales americanos.
EN: - Oh, but you're not a sap, you're very sweet, and a lady never thinks it a mistake when a knight errant does battle for her, even when he is wet behind the ears.
ES: - No, eres adorable. Una dama nunca ve mal que su caballero luche por ella aunque caiga bajo la lluvia.
EN: Yeah, a good fight, with no dough, a lawyer still wet behind the ears, and this crusading sheik convicting him in the headlines before the jury was even picked.
ES: Claro, un buen combate pero poco rentable, y con un abogado aún en pañales. Y ese jeque cruzado condenándolo en los titulares antes incluso de elegirse el jurado.
EN: I guess that's whats made him wet behind the ears.
ES: Supongo que por eso se ha vuelto tan escurridizo.
EN: That's Junior, still wet behind the ears.
ES: Sí, sigue siendo un niño.
EN: When I met him, I was wet behind the ears, sex and love and marriage all mixed up.
ES: Cuando lo conocí, era joven e inexperta... confundía el amor, el sexo y el matrimonio.
EN: Still wet behind the ears, they are.
ES: Son unos inexpertos.
EN: Were you still thinking I was wet behind the ears and smelled of milk? Were ya?
ES: ¿También cree que sigo lactando?
EN: - She's still wet behind the ears!
ES: - ¡Si aún toma el biberón!
EN: Ah, so many of you are still wet behind the ears!
ES: En el fondo del mar no hay más que peces de colores.
EN: But me, still wet behind the ears McCleary. I went for the sleigh ride.
ES: Pero yo, el novato de McCleary confiaba ciegamente en ti.

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