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take someone under your wing
guide and protect someone inexperienced
To look after and guide someone who has less experience than you.
Hear it in real life
How did you learn the job so quickly?
An experienced nurse took me under her wing.
My manager took me under her wing when I joined the company.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: My manager took me beneath her wing.
Say: My manager took me under her wing.
The fixed idiom uses "under your wing," not "beneath your wing."
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How it fits in a sentence.
take someone under your wing; took me under her wing
Your turn: say it out loud
My manager took me under her wing when I joined the company.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
take someone under your wing
guide and protect someone inexperienced
“My manager took me under her wing when I joined the company.”
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