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pull something off 1. Inf. to manage to make something happen. Yes, I can pull it off. Do you think you can pull off this deal? 2. and pull something off (of) someone or something Lit. to tug or drag something off someone or something else. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Sam pulled the covers off the bed and fell into it, dead tired. He pulled off his clothes and stepped into the shower. See also: pull pull off (something) to steer or turn a vehicle off the road. I pulled off the road and rested for a while. I had to pull off and rest. See also: pull pull off something also pull something off to succeed in doing something difficult or unexpected He won five straight games and pulled off one of the tournament's biggest upsets. I don't know how you pulled it off, but we're now $5,000 richer than we were yesterday. See also: pull How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Good commanders in the wars must be taken, be they never so ambitious; for the use of their service, dispenseth with the rest; and to take a soldier without ambition, is to pull off his spurs. He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life -- and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them. As foreign steamers would leave London at about the time of high-water, our plan would be to get down the river by a previous ebb-tide, and lie by in some quiet spot until we could pull off to one. |
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