under someone's wing

Guided or protected by someone, as in The department head asked Bill to take Joe under his wing during his first few weeks with the firm . This metaphoric term alludes to the mother hen sheltering her chicks. [1200s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Grady	GRAY-dee	Irish, English
Sera	SER-ə	English (Rare)
Pema	-	Tibetan, Bhutanese
Narantsetseg	-	Mongolian
ŽAna	-	Slovene, Croatian
Vosgi	-	Armenian