make it

Verb

• go successfully through a test or a selection process
  • She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now
    

• succeed in a big way; get to the top
  • After he published his book, he had arrived
    
  • I don't know whether I can make it in science!
    
  • You will go far, my boy!
    

• continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
  • He survived the cancer against all odds
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pass , arrive , get in , go far , survive , pull through , pull round , come through
• Antonyms: 
  fail , flunk , bomb , flush it , succumb , yield