trial by fire

“Our wedding was trial by fire and we survived,” she added.

“The scale was so massive compared to what I’d done before, it was trial by fire. I always want to bite off a little more than I can chew, and when that one was over, I said to myself, ‘OK, I know how to direct.’

Joe Alt’s trial by fire in the NFL continues with Cleveland’s Myles Garrett.

Sharp: Trial by fire, jump in the deep end — it was whatever cliché you want to use.

Harvick noted as much as he signed off from the Clash, where he and former teammate Bowyer bantered throughout Harvick’s second trial by fire.