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Definition

To fail or succeed based on your abilities.

Context : Business, Social Life
Category: Idiom
Semantic: survive

Usage of “sink or swim”

  1. Our trainees are put to the test as soon as they join the company. For them, it is sink or swim.

Examples of idiom “sink or swim” from Twitter
  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'levibouska'
    levibouska:

    The choices that we make is it real? I need to know is this real? Would it really matter if I sank or swam.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'StevenRae'
    StevenRae:

    In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. -David Smith #quote

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'rockkwithme'
    rockkwithme:

    When it's sink or swim you gotta think to win.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'harrybaker70'
    harrybaker70:

    Taking baby swimming for first time today. sink or swim.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'cwskincareberks'
    cwskincareberks:

    sink or swim... in business as in life you can stop moving towards your goals or you can fight the tide, persist and reach your destination

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'JoeMerlin'
    JoeMerlin:

    Bad day at work n a sink or swim right down the street. Gonna dive into this one head first