baptism of fire in English

difficult experience, trial

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1. For the inexperienced in the team, the campaign has been a baptism of fire.

2. It was Mark's first introduction to royal duties and he came through his baptism of fire unscathed.

3. My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election.

4. An as-yet-unproven system called J-STARS, getting its baptism of fire in the Gulf, illustrates the point.

5. I was given a million-dollar project to manage in my first month - it was a real baptism of fire.

6. Beige popsters take a vicarious pride in the slow baptism of fire that their chosen genre and its protagonists underwent.

7. The other Baptisms were uniquely for other times, limited to certain people, or (in the case of the baptism of fire) still future.

8. Her first day in the job was a real baptism of fire because she had to deal with a very difficult case immediately.

9. Long the 'Knights of the Sky', military Aircraft received their baptism of fire during World War 1 (1914-1918), a war which saw a continuous evolution of the species into evermore lethal fighting machines - fighters, bombers, raiders, interceptors, and the like.Far from hitting their ceiling, the Aircraft continues to evolve along multiple avenues, culminating in the modern pilot-less weapons