sink or swim
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You'll either make it on your own or fail — there's no help coming.
"The new recruits were thrown in at the deep end — it was sink or swim."
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It's sink or swim.
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It's sink or swim.
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It's sink or swim, man.
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So, it's sink or swim.
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It was a sink or swim place.