be a success

Synonyms

arrive succeed triumph thrive flourish prosper bring home the bacon deliver the goods make it scoring break through get on come off make headway pan out
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Antonyms

miss boomerang bungle reverse tank bomb
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Examples

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms. Eric Idle

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society. George H. W. Bush

He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success. Anthony Trollope

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't. Lee Ann Womack

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