(idiomatic) The best or most desirable among some selection.

Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.

(now chiefly US) Inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing.

The harmonica / The panpipes / The Jew's harp

plural of hanger-on

To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task. / (idiomatic) To move forward, progress steadily.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pull one's own weight

present participle of pull one's weight

simple past tense and past participle of pull one's own weight

present participle of pull one's own weight