Idiom
swim with sharks
Meaning
To operate among dangerous people.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You have to be careful when you swim with sharks.”
“If you want to succeed in this cutthroat industry, you must learn how to swim with sharks without losing your integrity.”
“Entering the world of high-stakes corporate litigation requires a certain ruthlessness, for one is essentially choosing to swim with sharks on a daily basis.”
Examples
simple
“You have to be careful when you swim with sharks.”
contextual
“If you want to succeed in this cutthroat industry, you must learn how to swim with sharks without losing your integrity.”
complex
“Entering the world of high-stakes corporate litigation requires a certain ruthlessness, for one is essentially choosing to swim with sharks on a daily basis.”
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