(a) dry run

(a) dry run
British, American & Australian, British & Australian an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it.

We decided to do a dry run at the church the day before the wedding.

We'd better have a couple of dummy runs before we do the real thing.


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