earn one's wings
verbEtymology
From the film It's a Wonderful Life, in which Charlie has to prove himself to earn his wings as a full-fledged angel.
Definitions
To prove one's worth or merit.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for earn one's wings. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA