dry run

This was a couple of years before you came along, so she probably took it as a dry run for the real thing.

On February 6, a dry run of the show was held.

The vote is in many ways a dry run for next year's general election.

We've made a dry run on this, and it works.

"Thought I should have a go at a dry run."

They made a dry run, then the Captain stood up.

And all this for a practice drill, a dry run.

The flights would be dry runs for the real thing.

The first pass was a dry run as they identified the target.

I'd like to know if they always do a dry run."

I pinch my nose and take myself through a dry run.

It was, in many respects, a dry run for the general election.

She described the group of men's behavior as consistent with a dry run.

We'll try another dry run in a month or so."

"We did a dry run yesterday on what we're going to do tomorrow, and it worked fine."

My perfect dry run had left no doubt about her fate.

"We had a dry run the first day, on Wednesday," one police official said.

For all one knows, this attack might be a dry run to see Pakistani response.

Try to arrange a dry run so that you can become familiar with how the system works.

Dry run, he thought as he took the next car down.

"This could be a dry run - just to test our response.

I had to make a dry run to try myself out, but I was all right.

For Wakefield, think of two hundred as a dry run.

We'll do a dry run first so you can get used to the feel of the trigger."

"It's like taking a dry run, so the day of the surgery they can concentrate more on being there for the child."