training wheels

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Etymology

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From training wheel +‎ -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns).

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Noun

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training wheels pl (plural only)

  1. (figuratively) Anything designed to make something easier for a novice.
    • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Arrival:
      Kick off the training wheels, Corporal. He's good to go.
    • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
      Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.

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Noun

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training wheels

  1. plural of training wheel

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