TRY ONE'S HAND Definition & Meaning

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try one's hand

Also, try one's luck . Take a chance doing something, as in We thought we'd try our luck at getting a hotel room at the last minute .
Attempt to do something for the first time, as in I thought I'd try my hand at snorkeling . This idiom uses try in the sense of “ascertain by experiment or effort,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

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It's enough to try one's hand at writing music, not necessarily intending to end up with a finished work, in order to understand the process through which musical ideas achieve concrete form.

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To try one’s hand at it might do well enough, now and then, to spice an otherwise luxurious life, but as a steady diet the thing was too unrelenting.

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Promotion, however, and the invitation to try one's hand at some greater venture, do not come automatically to an officer because of the onset of war.

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The materials necessary to try one's hand at modelling are very inexpensive.

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It would be unnatural not to try one's hand.

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