fresh out
n.— «Once we identify the skills and number of people to be hired, the next decision is whether to hire recent college graduates (sometimes referred to as “fresh outs”), or those with considerable work experience (also referred to as “journeymen”).» —“Hiring: an important part of work force shaping” by Al Kaniss DCmilitary.com Jan. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Mary Beth in Greenville, South Carolina, wonders: Why do we say four-oh-nine for the number 409 instead of four-zero-nine or four-aught-nine? What are the rules for saying either zero or oh or aught or ought to indicate that arithmetical symbol...