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on one's mettle
–noun
1.
courage and fortitude:
a man of mettle.
2.
disposition or temperament:
a man of fine mettle.
—Idiom
3.
on one's mettle,
in the position of being incited to do one's best
The loss of the first round put him on his mettle to win the match.
Origin:
1575–85;
sp. var. of
metal
,
in metaphoric usages
Synonyms:
1.
valor, pluck, vigor, ardor, nerve, fiber.
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mettle
1581, variant spelling of
metal,
both of which were used interchangeably (by Shakespeare and others) in the literal sense and in the figurative sense of "stuff of which a person is made" until the spellings and senses diverged early 18c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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