0 If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts:
My employer gave me no help when I started my new job - I was just left to sink or swim.
1 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.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
sink or swim