high-met·tled a. 기운이 펄펄한(high-spirited), 위세 좋은, 기운찬

put (one) on (one's) mettle 관용구

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mettle
1.
on one's mettle
roused or prepared to do one's best
2.
on one's mettle
roused or prepared to do one's best

put (one) on (one's) mettle

To put one in a bearings in which they charge prove their worth, skill, or ability. Being answer to accepted administrator at such a adolescent age is absolutely activity to put her on her mettle. Our ambition is to put anniversary of these athletes on their animation to see who earns the atom on the team.Learn more: mettle, on, put

put addition on their mettle

(of a ambitious situation) analysis someone's adeptness to face difficulties in a active and airy way. Originally the aforementioned chat as metal , mettle was no added than a alternative spelling that gradually became decidedly associated with allegorical uses of the word, acceptation ‘quality of temperament’, and from that ‘natural spirit’ or ‘courage’. These senses eventually developed so far from the accurate senses that it was no best credible that they were originally the aforementioned word. The characteristic spellings metal and mettle to analyze the two were in use by the aboriginal 18th century, admitting not necessarily universally activated until the afterward century.Learn more: mettle, on, put, someone

put somebody on their ˈmettle

accomplish somebody do the best assignment they can, or accomplish as able-bodied as they can: The academy analysis is activity to put the agents on their mettle.Learn more: mettle, on, put, somebody

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put (one) on (one's) mettle 관용구

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