trying on
Noun
Meaning
putting clothes on to see whether they fit
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Examples
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.
The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.