test-drive

[Charles C Doyle]

Test drive:  Isn't that how a track record is acquired?

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:42 AM

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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