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Johnny Come Lately In The Loop 396 Newcomer Can’t Expect Join Company Immediately

Id in_the_loop_396
Idiom JOHNNY-COME-LATELY
Definition a newcomer
Examples
  1. You can’t expect to join the company, take over immediately, and not cause some hard feelings. To the workers, you’re a Johnny-come-lately.
  2. The author of the book was under attack because he was a Johnny-come-lately to the field and didn’t have the reputation that the older, more established authors had.
Cross-Refs

Compare to: wet behind the ears

Extra Info

The expression is used to dismiss someone’s importance due to a lack of experience.

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