Know someone who does not have much experience? We might call them a babe in the woods. It is an innocent or very naive person who is apt to be duped or victimized, as in she was a babe in the woods where the stock market was concerned. The term originated in a popular ballad of 1595, “The Children in the Wood,” about two young orphans who are abandoned in a forest and die.
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