"try one's hand" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-try one's hand.ogg Forms: tries one's hand [present, singular, third-person], trying one's hand [participle, present], tried one's hand [participle, past], tried one's hand [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} try one's hand (third-person singular simple present tries one's hand, present participle trying one's hand, simple past and past participle tried one's hand)
  1. (idiomatic) To attempt a skill, craft, trade, or action, possibly for the first time. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: overplay one's hand, try one's luck Translations (Translations): kokeilla (Finnish), s’essayer à (French), próbować swoich sił [imperfective] (Polish), spróbować swoich sił [perfective] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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