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a/the new kid on the block idiom informal someone or something that is new in a place, organization, or situation, usually one in which they have to compete with others: 刚上路的新手,初来乍到者 Realizing I was the new kid on the block in this job, I was determined to prove myself.意识到自己在这份工作上还是个新手之后,我下定决心要证明自己的能力。 Sooner rather than later the established companies are going to have to accept there's a new kid on the block. This restaurant is the new kid on the block, having opened only a few months ago. As new kids on the block, they kind of wanted to prove themselves - that they were the team to beat. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases New afresh be ahead of the curveidiom box-fresh brand new ink innovative innovatively latest newness next-gen next-generation novel original the avant-garde the ink is not dry/still wetidiom unhackneyed unheard-of unprecedented up-to-the-minuteidiom youth
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