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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
Carney said the G7 summit hosted by Canada in June would be "very important" in deciding the future path of the global trade war, adding it would "put to the test" whether the group of the world's seven most advanced economies - which includes the US - was still the most "like-minded of like-minded countries".
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.
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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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