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21pull off — {v.}, {informal} To succeed in (something thought difficult or impossible); do. * /Ben Hogan pulled off the impossible by winning three golf tournaments in one year./ * /The bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery./ Compare: PUT ACROSS(2) …
22pull off — {v.}, {informal} To succeed in (something thought difficult or impossible); do. * /Ben Hogan pulled off the impossible by winning three golf tournaments in one year./ * /The bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery./ Compare: PUT ACROSS(2) …
23pull off — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, achieve, bring about, bring off, bring through, bring to effect, bring to pass, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, come through with, commit, compass, crown with success, do, do the… …
24pull\ off — v informal To succeed in (something thought difficult or impossible); do. Ben Hogan pulled off the impossible by winning three golf tournaments in one year. The bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery. Compare: put across(2) •• to carry out… …
25pull off — transitive verb Date: 1883 to carry out despite difficulties ; accomplish successfully against odds < the team pulled off an upset > …
26pull off — To drive off a road (and stop) …
27To pull off — Pull Pull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pulled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pulling}.] [AS. pullian; cf. LG. pulen, and Gael. peall, piol, spiol.] 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. [1913 Webster] Ne er pull your hat upon your brows.… …
28ˌpull ˈoff sth — phrasal verb if a vehicle pulls off a road, it stops by the side of it …
29Pull off — succeed in achieving or performing (something) …
30pull off — Australian Slang succeed in achieving or performing (something) …
