win one's spurs

win one's spurswin fame or honor 获得荣誉；成名 * Edison won his spurs as an inventor while young. 爱迪生很年轻时就因创造发明而一举成名。

• Kuybyshev
• distinguished service orders
• at sixes and sevens
• -icity
• macules
• teratisms
• calefactions
• cytozoons
• callow youth
• deepnesses
• Hamlet without the Prince of Hamlet without the Dane
• know sb by name/reputation
• shopgirls
• aspartate
• flux density
• guest
• have time to burn
• dextropimaric acid
• antitoxine
• barmy-brained
• aduncity
• psammophiles
• boattails
• our erring brethren
• colpotomy
• talk ... into
• Nineveh
• palpitations
• cysticercerci
• repositioner
• ordainments
• waterage
• sphenographic
• negative sign
• opisthotic
• videophile
• parrotlets
• transverse longitude
• neocortical
• vindicability
• nonstriated muscle
• man-about-town
• concretion
• soil thermograph
• goiss
• ferrierite
• continuous permafrost
• shuttle service
• consolidation tests
• poop sheet
• flag ranks
• ornamentalists
• earned point
• listservs
• brake parachute
• devourers
• ben tree
• peck at sth
• cut up well
• dryopithecines
• Arkansas toothpick
• devicefulness
• entera
• halest
• wave impedance
• the sum of things
• aren't
• tarmacked
• interposal
• Bible-thumper
• outtonguing
• as strong as brandy
• selenological
• sheephooks
• discobolu
• woe betide sb
• keep sb/sth away (from sb/sth)
• Samurai bonds
• asserter
• idlers
• Espoo
• disobeyals
• malaccas
• braconid
• gastropores
• membranated
• base course
• wave theory
• factor group
• landscape gardenings
• intellective
• start in
• asthenia
• Robinson Crusoe
• aminotriazoles
• proctosigmoidectomies
• en cina
• soft-pedalling
• reimpression
• gelisols