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Acid test   /ˈæsəd tɛst/   Listen
Acid test

noun
1.
A rigorous or crucial appraisal.





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"Acid test" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a bad one; to overthrow the democracy they had won over some of the leading citizens whom they banished when they had attained their object. Their faithless conduct promised no hope of a firm alliance with Athens. The Rhodian question was to be the acid test of ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb
... things a hymn to life. It is the acid test of a Chestertonian. Reviewers became wildly enthusiastic or bitterly scornful. Borrowing from his own phrase about Pickwick I am inclined to say that men not in love with life will not appreciate Manalive— nor, I should imagine, heaven. ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... of wet blue litmus paper in the fumes of SO2, and note the acid test. Try the same with ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams


Words linked to "Acid test" :   appraisal, assessment


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