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the sweet smell of success
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the pleasant feeling of being successful
Written or slightly humorous. English uses 'smell' where Vietnamese uses 'hương vị'; 'the sweet taste of success' is also used.
In context
After years of rejections, the author is finally enjoying the sweet smell of success.
The team could almost catch the sweet smell of success as the final whistle approached.
More idioms about success
- a blessing in disguisesomething that seems bad at first but later brings a good result
- a close calla situation in which you only just avoid danger or failure
- a dream come truesomething you have wanted for a long time that has finally happened
- a feather in your capan achievement that you can be proud of and that may help you later
- a flash in the pana sudden success that does not last or happen again