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baptism by/of fire |
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a baptism by/of fire a very difficult first experience of something. I was given a million-dollar project to manage in my first month. It was a real baptism by fire. See also: fire |
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Fick's account of training, leadership, and combat is straightforward and unadorned, and he is refreshingly unselfconscious about his own baptism by fire. The first match of Robertson's career was a baptism by fire, as she and her teammates played host to Oregon at MacArthur Court, one of the toughest venues in the country for a road team to compete. had its baptism by fire during some of the heaviest urban combat Marines have been involved in since Hue City in Vietnam in 1968. |
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Baptism by fire
