do well for oneself
Achieve personal success
To do well for oneself is to achieve financial success or material comfort through one's own efforts.
The phrase implies upward mobility—someone who started with less and built prosperity: She's done well for herself since leaving that small town.
Often carries a note of admiration, sometimes tinged with surprise.
- making itAchieving one's goal
- suitMatched formal garments
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- climbing the ladderProgressing through hierarchy
corner office · pay raise · wealth · happiness · financial security · savings · networking · entrepreneurship · work ethic · office · affluence · perseverance · economic stability · upward mobility · contentment · net worth · stock portfolio · profitability
do well for oneselffail
Be unsuccessful
fall on hard times · hit rock bottom · fail miserably · struggle · founder
do well for oneselfself-destruct
Destroy oneself automatically
let oneself go · self-sabotage · shoot oneself in the foot · be one's own worst enemy