Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

put one's toe in the water

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables
put one's -toe in the wa-ter
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of test the waters.

Inflected Forms

puts one's toe in the water (present, singular) putting one's toe in the water (participle, present)

Synonyms

test the waters

Questions

What does put one's toe in the water mean?
Synonym of test the waters.

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