earn (one's) wings

To prove one's merit and skill. I never thought much of Stu, but he really earned his wings this week with how well he handled the merger.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Primitivo	-	Spanish
Stephanus	-	Biblical Latin
Yevgeniya	yev-GYE-nee-yah, eev-GYE-nee-yah	Russian
Ovidio	-	Italian, Spanish
Franciscus	frahn-SIS-kus (Dutch)	Late Roman, Dutch
Mikheil	-	Georgian