1. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
   - survive, pull through, pull round, come through 
2. Succeed in a big way; get to the top
   "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"
   - arrive, get in, go far 
3. Go successfully through a test or a selection process
   - pass, make the grade [N. Amer]

Derived forms: makes it, made it, making it

Type of: bring home the bacon, come through, defeat, deliver the goods, get the better of, overcome, succeed, win

• virulently
• virus
• virus infection
• virusoid
• vis major
• vis-à-vis
• visa
• visage
• visaged
• motherly
• Motherwell
• motherwort
• mothproof
• mothy
• motif
• motile
• motilin
• motility
• motion
• motion picture
• motion sickness
• motion study
• motion-picture camera
• motion-picture fan
• motion-picture film