try one's wings
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[edit]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)
- 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.