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self-made man |
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a self-made man a man who is rich and successful as a result of his own work and not because his family had a lot of money. Critchley was a self-made man who learned accounting while working in a brush factory. See also: man |
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for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. Sir David Archer, the Foreign Secretary, was the only one of them who was a self-made man, and the only one of them who looked like an aristocrat. |
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