From en.wiktionary.org:
[pull-off]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[*]
1. [en] To remove by pull ing.
2. [en] To achieve , accomplish , succeed at (something difficult ).
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1920 | author=Eric Leadbitter | title=Rain Before Seven | page=122
|passage="Oh, I shall PULL IT OFF. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said
Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.}}
1. * [year=1962]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=November 18 2001 | title=What the Muslim World Is Watching | titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/magazine/18ALJAZEERA.html?pagewanted=all | journal=The New York Times | accessdate=26 July 2014
|passage=The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown
prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he PULLED OFF a palace coup, taking
over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the
time).}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en
|date=September 2, 2011 |author= |title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro |work=BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14660870.stm |page= |passage=In
a frantic ending Blake and Crofts PULLED OFF brilliant tackles and Hennessey a
string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying
success as Wales manager.}}
1. [en] To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
2. [en] To begin moving and then move away; to pull away .
3. [en] To masturbate manually.
**** Translations
[To remove by pulling]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [disused] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [colloquial]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[To turn off (a road)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de] , [de] [another road] , [de] [side ]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[To begin moving and then move away]
- German: [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
[To masturbate]
- German: [de]
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