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put to the test
Idioms and Phrases
Try or check out something or someone, as in This tall grass will put our new lawnmower to the test , or Let's put Harry to the test and see if he knows the last 20 World Series winners . [Mid-1600s]Example Sentences
By March 1991, Ms Lloyd was ready to have her skills put to the test.
Coventry's diplomatic skills are about to be put to the test.
He also knows that for all the reps he got this winter, nothing will compare to the speed and pressure of real games, when his new fundamentals will be put to the test.
“People are confident that their homes will survive because when the neighborhood was put to the test, it held up,” Nestor said.
His popularity will be put to the test as the election approaches, and also as speculation focuses less on whether they will win and more on who they might form a coalition with.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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