• to carry sg off, to make the grade
• to gain admittance into a place, to get admittance into a place
• to scrape acquaintance with sy
• to get an article into a paper
• to come off well, to go off well
• to come short of sg, to come to naught, to come to ought, to fail, to fold, to get nowhere
• to fare ill, to go wrong, to miss
• to cut it fine, to run it fine
• to cut it fine, to run it fine