win/gain your spurs
to achieve something that proves that you are skilled in a particular type of activity and to therefore win the respect of other people:
He won his political spurs fighting hospital closures during his time as a local councillor in Bristol.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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