All carry off synonyms
car·ry off
C c verb carry off
- avail — If you avail yourself of an offer or an opportunity, you accept the offer or make use of the opportunity.
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- score — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
- cut it — If you say that someone can't cut it, you mean that they do not have the qualities needed to do a task or cope with a situation.
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
- hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
- make it — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- carry away — to remove forcefully
- lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- take down — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- throw out — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- wipe out — an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force
- dig out — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- rip off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.