English

Verb

put through its paces

1. (idiomatic) To test completely; to exercise the full range of abilities or functions.

   Before buying the car, we put it through its paces.

   A state-of-the-art ‘Mars yard’ is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018.^[1]

Usage notes

"Paces" in this phrase is always plural.

See also

• pace

References

1. ↑ “MARS YARD READY FOR RED PLANET ROVER”, in (Please provide the title of the work) (HTML, in English), ESA, 2014-03-27, archived from the original on 2014-03-27, retrieved 2014-03-30