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Deliver the goods   /dɪlˈɪvər ðə gʊdz/   Listen
Deliver the goods

verb
1.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, succeed, win.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"






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"Deliver the goods" Quotes from Famous Books



... be married next Thursday, and Mame is off for a week's visit to be an accomplice at the ceremony. Mame is waiting for a freight wagon that is going to take her to Oklahoma, but I condemns the freight wagon with promptness and scorn, and offers to deliver the goods myself. Ma Dugan sees no reason why not, as Mr. Freighter wants pay for the job; so, thirty minutes later Mame and I pull out in my light spring wagon with white canvas cover, and ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry



Words linked to "Deliver the goods" :   bring off, make it, attain, accomplish, clear, essay, nail down, hit the jackpot, fail, run, get in, pass, negociate, carry off, hit, reach, peg, pull off, pan out, succeed, achieve, attempt, manage, luck out, bring home the bacon, try, seek, win, arrive, assay, nail, go far, work, act



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