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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



... will stand the acid test of Mr. Sullivan's formula, that a building is an organism and should follow the law of organisms, which decrees that the form must everywhere follow and express the function, the function determining and creating its appropriate form. Here are two eminent examples of "arranged" ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... old Cappy Ricks and of Matt Peasley, the boy he tried to break because he knew the acid test was good ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne


Words linked to "Acid test" :   assessment, appraisal


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