come off
phrasal verbwithcomeverbuk/kʌm/us/kʌm/came|come
C1informal
tohappenasplanned, or tosucceed:
取得预期的效果;成功There was somesortofpropertydealthat didn't come off.有笔房地产交易没有做成。
Itriedtellinga fewjokesbut they didn't come off(= no onelaughed).我试着讲了几个笑话,但没有奏效。
mainlyUS,informal
to give aparticularimpression:
He wascompetitivewithout coming offasaggressive.
Ultimately, thefilmcomes offasa littlepretentious.
I didn'twantto come offlikeI wasfeelingsorryfor myself.
We weretryingtohelppeople, but we weren't coming off that way.
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- A game
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- bear
- go (like/down) a bombidiom
- go from strength to strengthidiom
- go into orbitidiom
- go placesidiom
- go the whole hogidiom
- grade
- kill
- rise
- sewsomethingup
- slam dunk
- smash itidiom
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
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Seeming and purporting to be
come off better/worse/badly/well
tofinishin aparticularconditionafter afight,argument, etc.,especiallycomparedto someoneelse:
(尤指同其他的相比)表现得更好(或更糟,不好,不错等)Thesmallerdogactuallycame offbetter, with only a fewscratches.那只小一点的狗实际上表现得更为出色,身上只有几处抓痕而已。