baby step

English

Etymology

From the small, awkward movements of a young child learning to walk.

Noun

baby step (plural baby steps)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task.

   Learning a new language is difficult, so we'll learn by taking baby steps.

   • 2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎^[1]:

     “From a news operation standpoint, we’re going to start out with baby steps, but, eventually, this is going to be what you would expect it to be: a 24-hour operating network that covers a sport soup to nuts.”

Related terms

• baby talk

 

Translations

small effort

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: vauvanaskel, pikku askel
• German: kleiner Schritt m, Minischritt m