win one's spurs
English
Alternative forms
Verb
win one's spurs (third-person singular simple present wins one's spurs, present participle winning one's spurs, simple past and past participle won one's spurs)
- achieve recognition
- (history) be knighted
See also
Further reading
- “earn win your spurs” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “win earn your spurs” (US) / “win earn your spurs” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “win one's spurs”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “win gain your spurs” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “win one's spurs”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “win ones spurs earn ones spurs”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “win ones spurs”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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