rise in the world
See: COME UP IN THE WORLD.
{v. phr.} To gain success, wealth, or importance in life; rise to a position of greater wealth or importance.
He had come up in the world since he peddled his wife's baked goods from a pushcart.
Compare: GET AHEAD. Contrast: COME DOWN IN THE WORLD.

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