Question

Take Someone under Your Wing to help, guide, or protect someone

Accepted Answer

Each senior will be assigned a freshman to take under his or her wing during the first month of school. The idea of a person offering protection to another person just as a mother bird takes her babies under the security of her wing was first mentioned in the Bible. In 1885 the famous Englishmen who wrote comic operas, Gilbert and Sullivan, further popularized the expression in a song from their musical The Mikado.

Idiom	Take Someone under Your Wing
Example	Each senior will be assigned a freshman to take under his or her wing during the first month of school.
Meaning	to help, guide, or protect someone
Origin	The idea of a person offering protection to another person just as a mother bird takes her babies under the security of her wing was first mentioned in the Bible. In 1885 the famous Englishmen who wrote comic operas, Gilbert and Sullivan, further popularized the expression in a song from their musical The Mikado.

Wing Person Senior Assigned Freshman Month School Guide