go from strength to strength
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Meaning · English
Become increasingly successful or powerful
Literally: advance from one strong position to another
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we'll be right back.
Robb's went from strength to strength and in 1933 when Ramage & Ferguson went out of business his takeover of the Victoria Shipyards was complete.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “go from strength to strength” mean?
Become increasingly successful or powerful Literally: advance from one strong position to another
Is “go from strength to strength” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.