have a stab at

have/make a stab at something/doing something

to try to do something, or to try an activity that you have not done before I'd never tried water skiing before, but I had a stab at it while I was in Greece. She made a reasonable stab at solving the problem.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Edric	ED-rik	English (Rare)
Ade	[eid]
Susann	zoo-ZAHN (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Asplin	['æsplin]
Jadranko	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Olga	OL-gah (Russian), AWL-gah (Polish, German)	Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Latvian, Hungarian, Itali