At one point, he feinted in that direction, allowing that his opponent regarded him as "green behind the ears" (cliche police: that's green, senator, or wet behind the ears).

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When he was still wet behind the ears, he and Stanislas Yassukovich came up with the idea of creating for these markets a negotiable certificate of deposit.

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You can believe Brolin has seen some action, but Gosling just comes off as wet behind the ears -- there's no rapport between them, and no real reason to care when things go sour.

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And Robert Woollard, chairman of the Conservative Grass Roots organisation, suggested Mr Cameron needed to rein in some of his colleagues in No 10 who were "wet behind the ears" and "needed to get out more".

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He snared Dan Rather when Mr Rather was still a wet-behind-the-ears White House correspondent.

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It's a Cinderella story, but the problem is that the filmmakers haven't given us any reason to root for their wet-behind-the-ears Cinderella except that everyone else is being mean to her.

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If you'd rather not have some wet-behind-the-ears Victoria's Secret Webmaster pondering your camisole predilections, you can tell your browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you each time a Web site wants to write one to your hard disk.

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She peeled the hood of the wetsuit off her head, rubbed her ears hard to animate them, then tugged on the cap, tucking her wet hair under it.

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