"taste of success" is correct and usable in written English. You can use this phrase in either a literal sense, to refer to a literal taste experience, or in a figurative sense, to refer to the feeling of success or accomplishment. For example: "After months of hard work, I finally got to experience the taste of success.".
How sweet the taste of success.
That taste of success breeds a different type of motivation.
"It's that taste of success that, hopefully, pushes them on," he said of his players.
Art has given her son, now 37, his first taste of success.
Even the island's normally composed politicians were not immune to the sweet taste of success.
Wilson gave the first taste of success to a struggling young hustler/songwriter named Berry Gordy.
But for this weekend there is the rare taste of success.
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