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sink or swim
idiom
If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts: 自己去闯，成败全凭自己
My employer gave me no help when I started my new job - I was just left to sink or swim.开始新工作时，我的老板没有为我提供任何帮助——全凭我自己打拼。
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sink or swim | American Dictionary
sink or swim
idiom
a situation in which you will fail if you do not make a lot of effort:
When we started the business, it was sink or swim.
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