to take each challenge as they come
- idiom
- Informal
:
enfrentar cada desafío a medida que surja
- It's best to take each challenge as they come rather than worrying about every possible problem at once.
Examples
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When facing a busy week, I try to take each challenge as they come instead of feeling overwhelmed.
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She always takes each challenge as they come.
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As a new manager, he learned to take each challenge as they come and remain flexible.
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Don't worry, just take each challenge as they come!
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As a new manager, he learned to take each challenge as they come and remain flexible.
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It's best to take each challenge as they come rather than worrying about every possible problem at once.
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When facing a busy week, I try to take each challenge as they come instead of feeling overwhelmed.
Synonyms
7
3.6
To keep moving forward step by step despite problems
6
5.0
Accept what happens calmly and do not worry
1
6.7
To accept what you cannot change and make the best of it
To deal with a problem only when it happens, not before
Focus on today and do not worry about the future
To accept and adapt to difficult times without giving up
Antonyms
How Proactive
293
3.7
∞
1.0
- Informal
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
take + each + challenge + as + they + come
The phrase is directly compositional: 'take' (accept/deal with) + 'each challenge' (individual problems) + 'as they come' (when they arise), so the overall sense of handling problems one at a time is inferable from the parts. This construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English patterns, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Take each challenge as they come gives a simple picture: imagine problems arriving one by one like small boxes and you take each box when it reaches you. So it means 'to deal with problems one at a time' instead of worrying about all of them at once.