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10 idioms on failure and success

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  • To give a successful performance
    To bring the house down
  • It was a good try but still not good enough to succeed
    Close but no cigar
  • To be very successful at achieving something
    With flying colours
  • Get a very high score or excellent results
    To ace a test
  • To redraw or stop something that is in the process of failing to reduce your loss of investment
    To cut your losses
  • A great opportunity you didn’t manage to keep or obtain.
    To let something slip through your fingers
  • It becomes much easier after the difficulties before.
    Downhill all the way
  • Not remember something
    To draw a blank
  • You are very sure that you will be successful
    To be in the bag
  • A plan or project that suddenly goes wrong or fails
    To blow up in your face