I don’t think that’s what’s meant. It’s not that he set out to do a thing and achieved it; it’s that he set out to do what a child dreamed of but now he’s a grown man.

They are well oiled though…

I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.