What is Failing Up?
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(verb, intransitive) to derive gain in spite of failure that would usually either preclude said gain or have adverse consequences.
Even though Fred was the salesman who lost the big advertising account, he is failing up to a seat on the Board of Directors.
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when you think of a good pun, joke, punch line or one-liner after the opportune moment of delivery. if one was to then say this joke, it..
