Usually means: Succeed or fail by oneself.
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  1. sink or swim: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sink or swim: Merriam-Webster
  3. sink or swim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sink or swim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sink or swim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sink or swim: Wiktionary
  7. sink or swim: Dictionary.com
  8. Sink or Swim (Gaslight Anthem album), Sink or Swim (Over My Dead Body album), Sink or Swim (TV series), Sink or Swim (The Gaslight Anthem album), Sink or Swim (The Waifs album), Sink or Swim (film), Sink or Swim (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Sink Or Swim: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  10. sink or swim: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sink or swim: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sink or swim: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  To fail or succeed, no matter what.

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