put (someone or something) through his/her/its paces

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: to test what someone or something can do

We brought home three different computers and put them through their paces.

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Photo : Singer Vehicle Design One of Singer’s reimagined Porsches gets put through its paces at Magarigawa, where the restoration house introduced its brand in Japan last year. —Sue Callaway, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2025

Two weeks ago, at IEEE's fourth annual Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT, a relatively small but well-focused event), one of the most interesting presentations concerned a novel vanadium reflow battery that is being put through its paces in a northwest European town. —IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2013

This paint, which acts as a temporary sensor, reveals how airflow interacts with the car as it’s put through its paces. —Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025

First to use the charger was a Subaru Solterra that was later put through its paces across the rugged St Helena landscape. —Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025

Atayde is also keen to give credit to his female co-star, Montes, who was also put through her paces in both the shooting and the preparation. —Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024

After being put through its paces at California’s Riverside track by the great Shelby test driver Ken Miles, now a household name after the blockbuster film Ford Vs Ferrari, the car first raced in April of 1965 in the USRRC 200 in Pensacola, Fla. —Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024

Jesse Willis from Acworth, Georgia, took to TikTok to share footage of Roger, a pit bull, being put through his paces by Willis' dog, Chowder, who is a pit bull and Catahoula mix. —Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024

Shanghai Jiao Tong University The Nezha-SeaDart was recently put through its paces in a ten-day-long test in China's Thousand Islands Lake of Zhejiang Province. —New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2024