Take Someone Under Your Wing.
English
idiom
To start looking after someone — helping, guiding, or protecting them.
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To start looking after someone — helping, guiding, or protecting them.
Trusted by1.5M+English learners & teachers worldwide
To guide, mentor, and protect someone less experienced.
When you take someone under your wing, you offer them support and teach them what they need to know.
It's a generous act, usually by someone more senior or experienced.
"Show Someone the Ropes"
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Teaching someone how something works, without an ongoing mentoring relationship
"Look Out for Someone"
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Watching over someone's wellbeing, without actively guiding or teaching them
"Take Someone Under Your Wing"
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Actively mentoring and guiding someone with less experience over time
I'd like you to take the new analyst under your wing for the first month.
Happy to — I'll set up a regular check-in with them.
I didn't know anyone when I first moved here.
That's why I took you under my wing — I remembered how hard it was.
How did you learn so fast in that role?
My manager took me under his wing — I learned more in three months than in years before.
