bringing off
Making it happen
Bringing off means successfully accomplishing something difficult or unlikely.
The phrase emphasizes that the outcome was in doubt: She brought off the deal despite skeptical investors, He somehow brought off a last-minute escape.
You bring off feats, rescues, upsets, and schemes—things that require skill, luck, or audacity to pull off.
- completingReaching the end of
- executingCarrying out a task
- achievingReaching a goal
- succeedingAttaining aims or following
- realizingBecoming aware of something
fulfilling · pulling off · coming through · clinching · tour de force · managing · orchestrating · attaining · victory · accomplishment · carrying out · nailing · sticking the landing · finesse · triumph · securing · making it · against all odds
bringing offfailing
Flaw in one's nature
botching · bungling · blowing it · falling short · flopping
bringing offgiving up
Choosing to stop trying
abandoning · quitting · aborting · bailing out · throwing in the towel
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