sink or swim

sink or swim
1. int phr; разг.
будь что будет!, была не была!; ≈ (либо) пан либо пропал

My partner... and I, we work like hell. We expect everybody else to do the same. Sink or swim! (J. B. Priestley, ‘They Walk In the City’, ch. VIII) — Мой компаньон... и я, мы оба тоже работаем как черти. И мы ждем того же от остальных. Словом, пан или пропал!

2. v phr; разг.
погибнуть или победить, потерпеть поражение или преуспеть

Over a million... workers were callously tossed out to sink or swim, with no income whatsoever. (W. Foster, ‘Outline Political History of the Americas’, ch. 25) — Свыше миллиона... рабочих были выброшены на улицу и оставлены на произвол судьбы без всяких средств к существованию.

Economically we have chosen to stick too closely to the Americans; and now we realize that we are committed to sinking or swimming with the dollar. (J. Aldridge, ‘Heroes of the Empty View’, ch. 13) — Экономически мы слишком тесно связали себя с американцами, и вот оказывается, что мы всецело зависим от доллара - с ним и пляшем, с ним и плачем.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • sink or swim — {v. phr.} To succeed or fail by your own efforts, without help or interference from anyone else; fail if you don t work hard to succeed. * /When Joe was fourteen, his parents died, and he was left by himself to sink or swim./ * /Tom s new job was …   Dictionary of American idioms

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