if someone moves onwards and upwards, they continue being successful or making progress.

The team are moving onwards and upwards after their third win this season.

She started her publishing career as an editorial assistant and it was onward and upward from there.

• be dead meat
• be dead on feet
• be dead on your feet
• be dead to the world
• be department
• be done in
• be done like a dinner
• be done like a dog's dinner
• be done to a turn
• be done to death
• be down in the dumps
• be down in the mouth
• be down on like a ton of bricks
• be down on luck
• be down on someone like a ton of bricks
• be down on uppers
• be down on your luck
• be down on your uppers
• be dressed to kill
• be dressed up to the nines
• bedroom eyes
• be dropping like flies
• be duck soup
• be duty bound
• be duty bound to do something