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bring off

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bring something off
to cause something to happen; to carry out a plan successfully. Do you think you can bring it off? She brought off her plan without a hitch!
See also: bring

bring off something also bring something off
to succeed in doing something Only a megacorporation has the resources to bring off this kind of deal.
See also: bring


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Hunt then urged the commodore to fit out one of his prizes, and send her to Astoria, to bring off the property and part of the people, but he declined, "from want of authority.
For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.
I can bring off two canoe loads of food in the morning.
 
 
 
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