strike out
— phrasal verb with strike uk/straɪk/us/straɪk/verb struck, struck
(START)
to start doing something new, independently of other people:
After working for her father for ten years, she felt it was time to strike out on her own.
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Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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(FAIL)
US informal to be unsuccessful:
I really struck out with her - she wouldn't even kiss me good night.
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Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- flunk out
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- screw (sth) up
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
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