Verb
put to the test (third-person singular simple present puts to the test, present participle putting to the test, simple past and past participle put to the test)
(idiomatic) To test something or someone; to evaluate, scrutinize or explore by testing or experimentation.
He got a new bicycle yesterday, so I expect that today he will want to take it out riding and put it to the test.
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. Andy Goldsworthy
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. Terry Brooks
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. Franz Liszt
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? David Mamet
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. W. G. Sebald
Virtue and valour rejoice in being put to the test. Latin Proverb