pull sth off
informal — phrasal verb with pull /pʊl/ verbDefinition
› to succeed in doing something difficult or unexpected: The central bank has pulled off one of the biggest financial rescues of recent years.Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
(Definition of pull sth off from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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