on mettle

on (one's) mettle

Prepared to accept a challenge and do one's best.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tiziana	tee-TSYAH-nah	Italian
GabriËLle	khah:-bree-EL-lə	Dutch
VÁClav	-	Czech, Slovak
Andris	-	Latvian, Hungarian
Robby	RAH-bee	English
Werner	VER-ner (German), VER-nər (Dutch), WER-nər (Dutch)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish