If you want this promotion, you're going to have to 'step up to the plate'. [=you will have to improve your work performance to show that you deserve the promotion]
She has a lot 'on her plate' right now. [=she has a lot of things that she has to deal with right now]
He was handed the job 'on a plate'. [=he was given the job without having to do anything to earn it]
(..) so he can see how we behave when we think we're unobserved. I charge my batteries via induction plates. If I reverse the power flow, it overloads the system. You're causing the cuts? So we can see how we behave when we're unobserved. (..)2014 Ex Machina