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Vocabulary: success or failure

Everyone wants to be the best;  therefore, they must measure themselves and compete against each other... and not only against oneself...

Goals must be set!

TO SUCCEED  -  TO ACHIEVE=> SUCCESS - ACHIEVEMENT: 

- He couldn't manage it: he couldn't do it.

- To have success in sth: to succeed in doing/ to manage to do.

- To meet with success: to be successful.

- To be crowned with success: to have reached success.

- Everything went right (for him).

- He's flushed with success.

TO FAIL=> FAILURE. 

- There's something wrong/ There's something amiss: something's going wrong!

- To fall on one's sword: to accept the consequences of an unsuccessful or wrong action.

- To fight a losing battle: trying to do something with little chance of succeeding.

- To be a flash in the pan: the success isn't likely to be repeated.

- With flying colours: very successfully.

- To be sent on a fool's errand: to try to do something which has no chance of success. 

- To be back to square one: no success in what they were trying to do, so they have to start again.

- To be in the bag: success or victory is going to be achieved.

- The game is not worth the candle: the advantages to be gained are not worth the effort involved.

- Close but no cigar: a good attempt but not quite good enough to succeed.

As you see, there are many ways to express SUCCESS  or FAILURE! No problem for you! You'll pass the test! 

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1. You’re a flash in the panfighting a losing battlein the bagI don't know: your claims are much too high and will never be accepted.



2. 'Don’t worry about Nina… She’s a real failureachieverflopI don't know and she’ll do what’s expected of her…'



3. I’m glad she succeeded in deliveringsucceeded to deliversuceeded to deliveringI don't know her speech in spite of her fear of crowds.



4. 'I can’t manage doingmanage to domanaged in doingI don't know all this work on my own. I need someone to help me.'



5. 'It wouldn’t be fair to put him in the bagfall on his swordsend him on a fool's errandI don't know when he has so much useful work to do here.'



6. 'If I were you, I wouldn’t persevere. The game is in the bagisn't worth the candleis a fool's errandI don't know.'



7. In spite of the actors’ efforts, the play was a complete triumphbestsellerflopI don't know and was performed only 5 times.



8. 'With the tie-break John has just won, no doubt the match is worth the candlein the baga fool's errandI don't know !'



9. 'Of course, Lucy can be a leader! Look at her, she’s a real triumphgo-getterbestsellerI don't know and can be very persuasive.'



10. The company has been thrivinga feata go-getterI don't know tremendously since the new team of managers implemented the necessary reforms.