Idiom
teething trouble
Meaning
Synonym of teething troubles.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The new software has a few teething troubles.”
“My new coffee machine has a bit of teething trouble with the water filter.”
“We expected some teething troubles when we first opened the restaurant, but everything is running smoothly now.”
“The new bus route is popular, but we are dealing with some teething trouble regarding the weekend schedule and driver shifts.”
“Most couples experience some teething trouble when they first move in together and have to share a small kitchen.”
“Although the project faced significant teething troubles during the initial launch phase, the team successfully resolved the technical errors within the first month.”
Examples
simple
“The new software has a few teething troubles.”
“My new coffee machine has a bit of teething trouble with the water filter.”
contextual
“We expected some teething troubles when we first opened the restaurant, but everything is running smoothly now.”
“The new bus route is popular, but we are dealing with some teething trouble regarding the weekend schedule and driver shifts.”
“Most couples experience some teething trouble when they first move in together and have to share a small kitchen.”
complex
“Although the project faced significant teething troubles during the initial launch phase, the team successfully resolved the technical errors within the first month.”
Origin
The term is a nineteenth-century metaphor drawn from the physiological process of a child's first teeth erupting through the gums. As the physical event is frequently accompanied by a degree of fever, restlessness, and general irritability, the phrase was adopted into wider English usage to denote the initial difficulties or minor malfunctions encountered during the early stages of a new project or the first operation of a machine.
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