phrasal verb

• 1pull something off, pull off somethinginformal Succeed in achieving or winning something difficult.

  More example sentences

  • ‘he pulled off a brilliant first round win’
  • ‘Going public will make it more difficult to pull the scheme off a second time, and may give them an unsavoury reputation in some quarters.’
  • ‘These four albums will show you why he simultaneously succeeded and failed to pull it off.’
  • ‘Mr Ahern may have difficulty in pulling this trick off.’
  • ‘The thought of it is enough to make you wince, but the performers are skilled enough to pull it off.’
  • ‘They can play a whole set of completely new material and still pull it off.’

  Synonyms

  achieve, fulfil, succeed in, accomplish, bring off, bring about, carry out, carry off, execute, perform, perpetrate, discharge, complete, conduct, negotiate, clinch, work out, fix, effect, establish, engineer

• 2US (of a vehicle) move to the side of or off the road.

  More example sentences

  • ‘there is no place to pull off in case of an accident’