earn (one's) wings

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earn (one's) wings

To prove one's merit and skill. I never thought much of Stu, but he really earned his wings this week with how well he handled the merger.

See also: earn, wing

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Barbecue teams are ready to battle and earn their wings on Saturday.

Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days ready for crowds, corn, BBQ cook-off

Mobile phones were banned and mental tasks set, making them bond as a group and earn their wings.

PULIS: IT'S TIME TO FLYHIGH; IN ASSOCIATION WITH Boro boss wants his side to keep looking up after challenges at RAF base

The training will also surpass typical qualification levels of lower level devices before the cadets earn their wings on the Academy's fleet of 22 Cirrus SR22 G6 single-engine piston and five Embraer Phenom 100EV very light jet aircraft.

Emirates flight school picks TRU Simulation

Despite age, gender, ethnicity, religion, or any other categorization with which one might identify, graduates of air assault school earn their wings solely by passing the air assault standard.

Air assault school: foundation of the air assault nation

WAVE is looking for courageous people across the UK to take part in a charity parachute jump and earn their WINGS on National Wings Day.

WAVE Trust National Wings Day

Muscat: Armed with a battery of tips and pointers following two days of instruction in Oman Sail's Coaching Clinics, 120 young competitors gunning for honours at Mussanah Race Week 2014 will get a chance to earn their wings when racing gets underway on Friday in Mussanah.

Mussanah Race Week kicks-off with blend of practice & theory

WOMEN are to be given the green light to earn their wings and join the Paras.

Girls get the green light to join Paras

and 7-year-old sister Ebony earn their wings four years after tragic car fire (Van Nuys, CA, Sept.

Aeroplex / Aerolease Group - Working with the Children's Burn Foundation to Make a Child's Dream Come True

They are the cinematographer, production designer and costume designer, who earn their wings and most of the praise.

Aviation biopic fails to get off the ground

Hopefully they will soon earn their wings and then visitors to Kielder Water & Forest Park can look forward to seeing them being taught to fish by mum and dad on northern Europe's biggest manmade lake."

Osprey chicks set for take-off; BIRDS ARE FIRST BORN IN COUNTY FOR 200 YEARS

Oscar-winner Tony Bill directs an old-fashioned adventure as the flyboys, led by Martin Henderson earn their wings up against the more experienced German pilots.

DVD: Fantastic Four rise to the challenge

Written by Sunday school teacher Kaycee Clancy, Sky Painters is a fanciful softcover children's picturebook about horses Matty and Joy that live in the clouds and earn their wings from the great hands of "the Master".

Sky Painters

Each year several hundred aviators graduate from HT-18 and earn their wings of gold.

HT-18 Vigilant Eagles

They'd have to earn their wings before God could be their co-pilot, but in the meantime, football players at the Air Force Academy could take comfort in the fact that they played for "Team Jesus Christ."