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Examples of greenhorn
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I first learned about the World Economic Forum at Davos as a greenhorn in college.
From the business.time.com
He was the proverbial greenhorn, who preferred horses to the ranch's four-wheelers.
From the omaha.com
As far as they're concerned, I could just as well be a greenhorn right off the boat.
From the theatlantic.com
Greenhorn is a little more natural, and Saddle Creek a little more resort.
From the sacbee.com
The Vikings don't have the receivers to match, and a greenhorn QB in Tarvaris Jackson.
From the usatoday.com
After all, they're greenhorn capitalists and still not too convincing ones.
From the economist.com
The sure hand and the total recall may make readers wonder if Singer was ever a greenhorn.
From the time.com
When you're 12 years into football management, you're not a greenhorn trying to make his way.
From the express.co.uk
Yes, the general with a penchant for intellectual treatises is a political greenhorn, they say.
From the businessweek.com
- Cub: an awkward and inexperienced youth
- A greenhorn is a term that came from ranchers to describe someone who is new to the job and has never roped cattle before. It can be applied to anyone who is inexperienced.
- (The Greenhorns) The Greenhornes are an American garage rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio.
- An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner or newcomer
- (Greenhorns) A term used to describe the inexperienced newcomer to the mountains.
- A term used to describe someone working his or her first season in Alaska.
- An Easterner innocent of cowboy ways; tenderfoot.
- Someone who was inexperienced in the ways of the West. It originally referred to a young animal whose horns had not yet matured.
- A novice on the town, an undebauched young fellow, just initiated into the society of bucks and bloods.
