Definition
Seasoned or experienced; mature, especially with respect to judgment.
In Context
- "Why, you irreclaimable donkey, don’t you know the “notice” was an advertisement? When will you get dry behind the ears?"
- "When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet. He never was no kid. He was born a full-grown man."
- ""You're past twenty-one," he said, "an' dry behind the ears.""
- "”When you bastards get dry behin' the ears, you'll maybe learn to let a ol' fella sleep.""
- "That wearing of blinders by our intelligence agents was recently revealed by The Washington Post's columnist and editor Jim Hoagland, who is dry behind the ears, to say the least."