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Meanings of acid test in English

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Usage of acid test in English
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A key factor in this is the acid test; can it urbanise?
The Irish Times
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The next month will be an acid test for May's Home Office.
The Guardian
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That is the acid test. Women lose out in Libya's new order.
The Guardian
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The commission said the nucleic acid test was the preferred method of diagnosis.
Reuters
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The acid test is whether this feeds into the hard data, he said.
The Guardian
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This youth had met the acid test, and had failed in the assay.
Mavericks
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So to Croke Park tomorrow afternoon and the first exposed high-pressure acid test.
The Irish Times
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The acid test is are there tons of electric cars on the road?
The Guardian
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All that I had gone through made for a kind of acid test.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
10
The things we are ashamed of are an acid test of our souls.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
11
Until now this party has stood the acid test of centuries.
Europe Revised
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She wanted to put her favourite theory to the acid test.
Greenwich Village
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I have submitted that water-district plan to the acid test, Colonel.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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World Cup matches against Wales, Australia and Fiji will prove an acid test.
The Irish Times
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Sledging the Australian during their initial exchanges was the acid test.
The Guardian
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That was their first acid test under Ger Loughnane and they failed miserably.
The Irish Times