come off
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
C1 informal to happen as planned, or to succeed:
There was some sort of property deal that didn't come off.
I tried telling a few jokes but they didn't come off (= no one laughed).
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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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come off better/worse/badly/well
to finish in a particular condition after a fight, argument, etc., especially compared to someone else:
The smaller dog actually came off better, with only a few scratches.
I always come off worse when we argue.
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Coming to an end
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- culminate
- dry up
- fizzle
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- peter out
- road
- run
- wind up
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