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Definition

To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).

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In Context

  • "to pull off a heist"
  • "Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?"
  • ""Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident."
  • "‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’"
  • "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)."
  • "In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager."
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Related Idioms

p

pull teeth

To do something that is especially difficult or effortful.

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kick some tail

To be authoritative and assertive in order to achieve or accomplish so…

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peg the needle

To achieve the maximum level of something, to max out, to pull out all…

 h

heavy going

Something that is boring; difficult to make progress on, or tedious

 i

in the thick of

In the middle of (something difficult).

 p

pull a rabbit out of a hat

To do something surprising and beneficial that is unexpected.
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