Earn
Make it
Make it verb - Succeed in a big way; get to the top.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Junko certainly doesn't make it easy for the students to escape the academy.
Source: Visual Novel / Dangan Ronpa -
Earn Your Happy Ending: While the main characters and their friends and family make it out okay (for the most part), the problems they had are shifted to someone else.
Source: Literature / The Nightmare Room - Earn Your Happy Ending: The characters go through some dark times in their lives, but they make it through at the end of the novel with hope.
Source: Creator / Marian Keyes
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