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put to the test

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put someone/something to the test
to find out how good someone or something is. Those icy roads certainly put my driving to the test. An explosion in the subway put police and firefighters to the test.
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The lion said: 'They have been informed that they were going to be put to the test, and have assumed some strength.
"Edward's love for me," said Lucy, "has been pretty well put to the test, by our long, very long absence since we were first engaged, and it has stood the trial so well, that I should be unpardonable to doubt it now.
He said, the present occasion would put to the test those excellent rudiments which he had learnt from Mr Thwackum and Mr Square; and it would be entirely owing to them, if he was enabled to survive such misfortunes.
 
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