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to stay hungry for growth

to stay hungry for growth

7.3
To want to keep getting better and to try hard to improve
  • idiom
translation icon : mantenerse hambriento de crecimiento
  • The team's ability to stay hungry for growth helped them achieve record-breaking results this year.

Examples

  • Successful entrepreneurs often stay hungry for growth, always seeking new opportunities to expand their businesses.

  • It's important to stay hungry for growth if you want to reach your full potential in your career.

  • Always stay hungry for growth!

  • She stayed hungry for growth throughout her career.

  • To achieve your goals, you must stay hungry for growth and embrace every learning opportunity.

  • Top performers in any field tend to stay hungry for growth, striving to enhance their skills continuously.

  • In order to stay competitive, you should stay hungry for growth, always looking for ways to better yourself.

Synonyms

stay hungry and never settle
vsto stay hungry for growth
8.8

To keep wanting more and trying to improve without accepting being average

is about keeping a steady internal determination to improve and advance

Antonyms

complacency
31 7.2

A feeling of being too satisfied with yourself that makes you ignore possible problems

to settle for less
9 4.5

To accept something worse than what you want or deserve

How Growth-Minded

to grow
∞ 2.1
to stay hungry for growth
7.3
to practice
  • US
697 1.0

Surface Forms

stay hungry for growth infinitive
stayed hungry for growth past
stayed hungry for growth past participle
staying hungry for growth present participle
stays hungry for growth third person singular

Morphology

stay + hungry + for + growth

The meaning 'maintain a strong desire to improve' is directly derivable from combining 'stay' (remain) with the metaphorical but common collocation 'hungry for' (eager or craving) and the noun 'growth' (development). The 'hungry for X' construction is cross-linguistically frequent and productive, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will very likely infer the intended motivational meaning.

Etymology

Stay hungry for growth uses hungry like the feeling when you want more food and growth like getting better. Imagine someone who always reaches for the next plate; that image shows wanting more, so the phrase means 'to keep a strong desire to improve and move forward'.