Brewer's: Dry-nurse

When a superior officer does not know his duty, and is instructed in it by an inferior officer, he is said to be dry-nursed. The inferior nurses the superior, as a dry-nurse rears an infant.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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