rise like a rocket
rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
To experience a meteoric rise in success (and then have one's fortunes reversed just as suddenly and dramatically). The phrase can be used to describe someone or something who has only experienced a period of success so far, not necessarily one followed by a downturn. Everyone has their eyes on the young actress who has been rising like a rocket in the film industry. The company rose like a rocket by trading sub-prime mortgages, and then fell like a stick when the housing bubble burst.
See also: fall, like, rise, rocket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
rise suddenly and dramatically (and subsequently fall in a similar manner).The origin of this phrase is a jibe made by Thomas Paine about Edmund Burke's oratory in a 1792 House of Commons debate on the subject of the French Revolution. Paine remarked: ‘As he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick’.
See also: like, rise, rocket
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
- key to success
- ride on the back of (something)
- dress for success
- ride (one's) coattails
- ride on (one's) coattails
- ride on coattails
- ride on someone's/something's coat-tails
- ride (on) the coattails of (someone)
- on the coat-tails of someone/something