Carry+off
91bear\ off\ the\ palm — • carry off the palm • bear off the palm v. phr. literary To gain the victory; win. John carried off the palm in the tennis championship match. Our army bore off the palm in the battle. (From the fact that long ago a palm leaf was given to the… …
92Off-The-Run Treasuries — All Treasury bonds and notes issued before the most recently issued bond or note of a particular maturity. These are the opposite of on the run treasuries . Once a new Treasury security of any maturity is issued, the previously issued security… …
93bear off — carry off; take off, remove; turn aside …
94carry someone/something off — take someone or something away by force bandits carried off his mule ■ (of a disease) kill someone Parkinson s disease carried him off in September …
95carry over — Synonyms and related words: assign, balance, balance the books, book, capitalize, carry, cast up accounts, charge off, close out, close the books, communicate, consign, credit, debit, deliver, deport, diffuse, disseminate, docket, enter, expel,… …
96carry something off — she carried off four awards Syn: win, secure, gain, achieve, collect; informal land, net, bag, scoop …
97carry the stick — tv. to live as a hobo, on the streets. (Streets. From the stick that supports the hobo’s bundle.) □ I even carried the stick for a while in the sixties. □ I was afraid I’d be carrying the stick if I got laid off …
98To bear off — Bear Bear (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Bore} (b[=o]r) (formerly {Bare} (b[^a]r)); p. p. {Born} (b[^o]rn), {Borne} (b[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bearing}.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. geb[… …
99bring off — verb be successful; achieve a goal She succeeded in persuading us all I managed to carry the box upstairs She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it The pianist negociated the difficult runs • Syn: ↑pull off, ↑negociate, ↑ …
100make off with — TAKE, steal, purloin, pilfer, abscond with, run away/off with, carry off, snatch; kidnap, abduct; informal walk away/off with, swipe, filch, snaffle, nab, lift, ‘liberate’, ‘borrow’, snitch; Brit. informal pinch, half inch, nick, whip, knock off; …
