test-drive

[Jonathan Lighter]

Merely "put to the test," "try":

2011
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112206/why-most-self-help-books-stink
 :
Whelan had her students test drive advice from the books that didn't suck,
and had some interesting, actual real-people results.
Not brand-new, but this is the first time I've seen it applied to abstract
ideas like "advice."

Note too "real-people," adj.

JL


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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