Sink or swim
To succeed or fail entirely by your own effort.
Sống chết mặc bay.
Tự bơi lấy, không ai đỡ cho.
Sink or swim
Examples
They gave him no training — it was sink or swim.
Họ chẳng đào tạo gì cho anh ấy cả — sống chết mặc bay.
The first month is sink or swim.
Tháng đầu tiên thì phải tự bơi.
Topics
Related idioms
- Slow and steady wins the racesimilar meaning
- United we stand, divided we fallsimilar meaning
- Never offer to teach fish to swimeasily confused
- Fortune favours the boldsame topic
- Failure is the mother of successsame topic
- The writing is on the wallsame topic