VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Sink or Swim

Meaning:

Fail or succeed

Examples:

  • This is sink or swim, ladies and gentlemen.
  • It's time for them to sink or swim.
  • The choice is yours: sink or swim.
  • The situation has come to the point where we either sink or swim.
  • I thought the free market is you sink or swim.
  • Trust me, right now, it's sink or swim.
  • Okay. The way we work is, you sink or swim.
  • I believe he used the words "sink or swim."
  • Was a matter of sink or swim.
  • We sink or swim together.