Our daughter was still 'wetting the bed'. [=was still urinating while sleeping in bed]
The main character is so 'wet' [='weak'] that it's hard to feel sorry for him.
She 'got her feet wet' at her new job by doing some simple filing tasks.
(..) Eduard Delacroix is dead. Isn't he? Percy... ...something to say? I didn't know the sponge is supposed to be wet. How many years you spend pissing on a toilet seat... ...before someone told you to put it up? - Percy fucked up, Hal. Pure and simple. (..)1999 The Green Mile
(..) Please, stay calm. Kill it! You do it! You're running this show, ain't you? I didn't know the sponge is supposed to be wet. Aah! Brutal! Brutal, no! - No! - What do you mean, no? (..)1999 The Green Mile