try one's hand

1. Also, try one's luck . Take a chance doing something, as in We thought we'd try our luck at getting a hotel room at the last minute .

2. Attempt to do something for the first time, as in I thought I'd try my hand at snorkeling . This idiom uses try in the sense of “ascertain by experiment or effort,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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