try one's hand

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It's enough to try one's hand at writing music, not necessarily intending to end up with a finished work, in order to understand the process through which musical ideas achieve concrete form.

From The Guardian

To try one’s hand at it might do well enough, now and then, to spice an otherwise luxurious life, but as a steady diet the thing was too unrelenting.

From Project Gutenberg

Promotion, however, and the invitation to try one's hand at some greater venture, do not come automatically to an officer because of the onset of war.

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The materials necessary to try one's hand at modelling are very inexpensive.

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It would be unnatural not to try one's hand.

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