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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
More phrases:
- bring out
- clue (someone) in
- end up
- fall down
- finish off
- lay off
- mike up
- orange up
- pass out
- pick up
- put down
- put on
- run over
- square up
- squirrel away
- stamp out
- sum up
- top off
- turn off
- walk into
- zero in on
- as all get-out
- at a loss
- at a loss for words
- beat around the bush
- buy time
- check is in the mail
- dark horse
- deafening silence
- eye candy
- face to face
- fat of the land
- get it
- give somebody pause
- goose is cooked
- green light
- hammer home
- haul his ashes
- have other fish to fry
- hem and haw
- honest-to-goodness
- if only
- in black and white
- in one's cups
- in the works
- keep a close watch on
- make fun of
- muckety muck
- odds and ends
- off-color
- old stick
- on hold
- on its merits
- on the nose
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out of the blue
- pencil-neck
- piece of cake
- play one's cards right
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