carry sth off
— phrasal verb with carry uk/ˈkær.i/us/ˈker.i/verb
to succeed in doing or achieving something difficult:
I thought he carried off the part of Hamlet with great skill.
She was nervous about giving a talk to her colleagues, but she carried it off very well.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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