Etymology

success is a great deodorant

Today it means: The attainment or achievement of success eliminates or overshadows one's past misdeeds or failures. Full definition →

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The story

Frequently attributed to Elizabeth Taylor. First use appears c. 1977 in The Good Housekeeping Woman's Almanac.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.