单词 | bring something ↔ off |
释义 | bring something ↔ off From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbring something ↔ off phrasal verbSUCCEED IN DOING somethingto succeed in doing something difficult SYN pull off They managed to bring off the most daring jewellery robbery in history. → bring→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbring off• Though that wasn't entirely true, for Maud would, and she would probably even bring it off.• The Vietminh had seemed to bring it off as if by a miracle.• I had done nothing to bring this off; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign.• Fumbling for the switch, he brought the lamp off its perch.• She hadn't been allowed to bring anything off the boat except her patchwork leather shoulder-bag which had been thoroughly searched first.• Sometimes the only answer is to bring it off the way it went on, layer by layer. |
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