come off
Verb
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Verb
come off
- To become detached.
- One of the wagon wheels came off.
- To have some success; to succeed.
- He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.
- (dated) To have an orgasm.
- To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.
- You should be careful about how you come off during interviews.
- To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- 1952, British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser (volume 80, page 466)
- Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose.
- 1952, British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser (volume 80, page 466)
- (obsolete) To come away (from a place); to leave.
- French: se détacher, se décoller
- Russian: отвалиться
- Russian: удаваться
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