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To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
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I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- run into
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- stand down
- take down
- vote in
- zero in on
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- behind closed doors
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- fair and square
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- hammer home
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- hit someone for six
- horse's ass
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- jump the gun
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