need an idiom?

Question

something like "to prepare someone for something" .
Does "put them on the beginning of the track" work?
any better suggestions.
Thanks.

Answer 1

How about " Setting them on the right path ", ?

Answer 2

Say a man is a journeyman (well trained and experienced) and he needs an assistant. That is called an "apprentice," and he learns his trade as his boss tells him how to do things. Benjamin Franklin was an apprentice printer, known as a "printer's devil" before he became a journeyman printer.

Those terms were used in the medieval times and through today.

Answer 3

id·i·om

NOUN:

A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in *keep tabs on*.

The specific grammatical, syntactic, and structural character of a given language.

Regional speech or dialect.

A specialized vocabulary used by a group of people; jargon: legal idiom.

A style or manner of expression peculiar to a given people: "Also important is the uneasiness I've always felt at cutting myself off from my idiom, the American habits of speech and jest and reaction, all of them entirely different from the local variety" (S.J. Perelman).

A style of artistic expression characteristic of a particular individual, school, period, or medium: the idiom of the French impressionists; the punk rock idiom.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin idima , idimat-, from Greek, from idiousthai, to make one's own, from idios, own, personal, private; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots

Idiom is yesterday's slang and slang is tomorrow's idiom.

In other words, idiom is slang that has, through use and over time, become acceptable to use in informal language.





Have a bee in one's bonnet. Meaning: He has bees in his bonnet.

Strictly for the Birds. Meaning: Not worth much.

The idiom 'looking a gift horse in the mouth' means finding fault with something that is freely offered.

Answer 4

grease the wheels
prime the pump