try your wings
try (one's) wings (out)
To use a skill that one has only just learned. Now that I'm a licensed driver, it's time for me to try my wings and hit the open road! Go ahead, try your wings out—I want to see the new move.
See also: try, wing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
try your wings
If you try your wings, you try to do something new to find out if you can succeed. A good school should encourage you to try your wings. He was very keen to try his wings and be a deputy on his own.
See also: try, wing
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- try (one's) wings (out)
- try wings
- have a lash at
- have a lash at (something)
- have a lash at something
- have a shot at (someone or something)
- have a bash at (something)
- have a bash at something
- give (something) a try
- give a try