Success and Failure

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right with the items on the left.

If you need any help, look at page 453 in the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.

I see that Clinton is still riding ______ in all the opinion polls in spite of all the scandals.
The new business has got off to a flying ______ and has exceeded all forecasts.
Our company continues to go from strength to ______ .
John speaks fluent Japanese so he really came into his ______ when we made a trade visit to Tokyo.
He used to work in a supermarket with me before he made it ______ in the music business.
That was a very difficult task you had to do and you came through it with flying ______ .
We were on the brink of bankruptcy and we had to gradually claw our ______ back.
We've had a lot of success in that market. There was a lot of competition at first but we won ______ down.
There's a lot of competition in the Indian market but we are leading the ______ . ('way' is possible here but I'm looking for another answer)
Now is the moment to see if it is a success or a failure. It's make or ______ time.
Either it will be a success or it will not. We have to let the project sink or ______.
It was a complete failure and the company fell flat on its ______ .
Nobody bought it so the product died a natural ______ .
When he failed yet again, that was the final nail in his ______ and he was sacked.
If this doesn't work I'm a dead ______ .
It only narrowly failed to work but a miss is as good as a ______ .
We almost got the contract but we were pipped at the ______ by our Korean competitors.
He's not as good as he used to be. He seems to have lost his ______ . ('way' is possible here but I'm looking for another answer)
They used to be a great company but they became self-satisfied and went off the ______ .
My English is improving all the time. It is going from ______ to strength.

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