bring off

English

Verb

bring off (third-person singular simple present brings off, present participle bringing off, simple past and past participle brought off)

1. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.

   I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.

2. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
   • 1606 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 5.6.25:

     I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.

3. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
4. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989