The phrase "get a foretaste of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that someone is experiencing a small sample or preview of something that is to come.
Example: "The trailer allows viewers to get a foretaste of the thrilling action in the upcoming movie."
Alternatives: "get a glimpse of" or "have a preview of".
So to see why a fuss is being made of it, and to get a foretaste of what the members of the Concentració* will experience, I decided to embark on my own two-day journey.
To get a foretaste of what is to come, try hiring a car or booking a room at a top hotel without a credit card.In a way, the future may be like the past, when few except the rich enjoyed much privacy.
Maybe in this state of emergency you get a foretaste of what could happen, and then you realize how dependent you are, there's nothing you can do; basically, everything stagnates for a while in personal life or in working life.
"We are all hoping 2012 will be one of the most memorable years for sport in this country and we hope everyone who comes to London for the awards will get a foretaste of the excitement to come".
Gamers got a foretaste of the world of Microsoft several years ago.
In 2008, when the global financial crisis battered the oil price, Venezuela got a foretaste of the current crisis.
I got a foretaste of our conflict driving up Interstate 5 to the university when I exclaimed over the sudden appearance through the fog of Lake Washington.
Just last week, it got a foretaste of what might beset it in the political culture of the neighborhood, when anti-fracking activists made it the locus for a street-theatre protest against a nearby underground natural-gas pipeline.
Mrs Obama was on the campaign trail with her husband, getting a foretaste of the nasty attacks she can expect if he wins the nomination after Tuesday's final Democratic party primary polling in South Dakota and Montana.
A majority of Bolivians have Indian blood, descended from the original inhabitants of this continent who got a foretaste of globalization centuries ago with the age of exploration and the arrival of European colonizers.
There he got a foretaste of that bitter awakening which many of his classmates did not experience until years later, when they returned from Vietnam to the social cataclysms that challenged the verities of duty, honor, and country they had learned at West Point.
