try one's hand at
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Promotion, however, and the invitation to try one's hand at some greater venture, do not come automatically to an officer because of the onset of war.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
To try one’s hand at it might do well enough, now and then, to spice an otherwise luxurious life, but as a steady diet the thing was too unrelenting.
From The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist
The materials necessary to try one's hand at modelling are very inexpensive.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various
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