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]
(..) big old white car with a silver trim. Needed a tune up. The third cylinder wasn't firing. Remeber that, Nangi? - No. - You didn't happen to catch the licence plate number? - Did you? - Oh, for sure. It was --T-H-D--. -. Wow, this is a lot of great info. Thank you. Told you Nangi has a mind like a steel trap. I wish I had a memory like an elephant. Well, I had a ball. You are welcome for the clue. And seeing as any moron can run a plate, - I will take that pen and bid you adieu. - The plate. I can't run a plate. I'm not in the system yet. (..)2016 Zootopia