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Wonder123 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

put your skill to test

Put your skills to test and prove that you are an the most intelligent person than anyone else in the hall.

In order to complete the task successfully, you have to put all your skills to test.

What does "put your skill to test" mean? Please help me understand.

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The expression that I know is "put something to the test". I'm not sure if the omission of "the" is just a mistake or if it's an acceptable personal or regional variant. There are plenty of Google hits.

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  • The expression that I know is "put something to the test".
  • I'm not sure if the omission of "the" is just a mistake or if it's an acceptable personal or regional variant.
  • There are plenty of Google hits.
  • Anyway, it means to try out or test something to see how well it performs.
  • There are problems with the first sentence.
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The expression that I know is "put something to the test". I'm not sure if the omission of "the" is just a mistake or if it's an acceptable personal or regional variant. There are plenty of Google hits.

Anyway, it means to try out or test something to see how well it performs.

There are problems with the first sentence.
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to the test. See the entry in this list of idioms for "test": http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/test
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