bring off
verb1
To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
- I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
- Vallett had promised that by that date he would be prepared to bring off their wholesale raid of the Tapsfield bank-note paper […]1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
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To bring to orgasm.
- And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
- She brought him off with her mouth, while gently tickling his balls, and got herself off with her fingers while she did him.2002, William P. Case, South Caicos Tailwind:
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Archaic To rescue; to liberate.
- I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], line 25:
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To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
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Slang To steal.
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Obsolete To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.