pull off
Verb
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Verb
- To remove by pulling.
- Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
- As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.
- (idiomatic) To achieve; to succeed at something difficult.
- Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?
- 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven (page 122)
- "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
- 2001 November 18, "What the Muslim World Is Watching ↗," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):
- The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).
- To turn off a road (onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
- After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.
- (of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
- As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.
- (vulgar, slang, transitive) To masturbate.
- French: sortir, tirer
- German: hinkriegen
- Italian: sbrogliare, riuscire
- Portuguese: conseguir
- Spanish: llevarse el gato al agua
- German: abbiegen, herunterfahren (another road), an den Straßenrand fahren (side)
- German: sich einen runterholen
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