- earn one's spurs
- earn one's spursFig. to prove oneself. •
After that rodeo, all the cowboys agreed that Sally had earned her spurs.
•He felt that he had earned his spurs when he received his Ph.D.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
earn one's spurs
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