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bring off en · VERB
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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.
Vallett had promised that by that date he would be prepared to bring off their wholesale raid of the Tapsfield bank-note paper […]
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
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To bring to orgasm.
And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy
1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:She brought him off with her mouth, while gently tickling his balls, and got herself off with her fingers while she did him.
2002, William P. Case, South Caicos Tailwind:
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(archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], line 25:
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To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
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(slang, transitive) To steal.
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(obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.
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