put through one's paces

To be thoroughly tested. The allusion here is to a horse being tried out by a possible buyer. Used literally in the mid-eighteenth century, it was transferred to human beings a century later. B. Taylor had it in Faust (1871): “I see she means to put him through his paces.” See also through the mill.

词组	put through one's paces
释义	put through one's paces put through one's paces To be thoroughly tested. The allusion here is to a horse being tried out by a possible buyer. Used literally in the mid-eighteenth century, it was transferred to human beings a century later. B. Taylor had it in Faust (1871): “I see she means to put him through his paces.” See also through the mill. See also: pace, put, through The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole give a wide berth to, to last-ditch defense/effort no spring chicken, (she's) ladies'/lady's man all in the/a day's work in clover, to be/live cast a pall upon, to call shotgun really and truly
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