Get (one's) wings informal verb phrase
To get a pilot's license.
Jack made a lot of efforts to get his wings, but he failed again.
Used to say that someone becomes addicted to drugs.
Since Peter got his wings, he has been estranged from his friends.
It is rumoured that he gets his wings.
Used to say that someone uses heroin for the first time.
I got my wings when I was 18.
People tend to like forbidden or illegal things just because they are forbidden or illegal.
He must have believed that stolen fruit is the sweetest, and he, therefore, cheated on his partner.