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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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

Actually, that applies to you too, dear reader, for two hours of fantastic awfulness follows as the guys earn their wings protecting Frenchie with some CGI-assisted heroics in the sky.

MOVIES: AERO ROMANCE IS PLANE AWFUL; This First World War drama is so frightful and simple-minded that you'll be rooting for the Germans FLYBOYS Cert 12A, 138mins *

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.

Wrestling with religion

One of 11 young men and women trying to earn their wings under the watchful eye of "the King.

Getting his shot: 2nd Lt. Jozsef Jonas never gave up on his dream of flying

Both the pilots and copilots truly earn their wings through the project.

CLASSROOM PRACTICE - Pilots and Copilots for Better Reading

Pilots earn their wings to fly jets, helicopters, propeller craft and other fixed-wing aircraft.

Lockheed Martin awarded $82.2 million CNATRA classroom and simulator services contract

Nigel is now offering visitors to Northumberland's beaches the chance to experience airborne thrills and earn their wings, having set up a new business in Amble, near Alnwick.