come off


verb(intr, mainly adverb)
  1. (also preposition) to fall (from), losing one's balance

  2. to become detached or be capable of being detached

  1. (preposition) to be removed from (a price, tax, etc): will anything come off income tax in the budget?

  2. (copula) to emerge from or as if from a trial or contest: he came off the winner

  3. informal to take place or happen

  4. informal to have the intended effect; succeed: his jokes did not come off

  5. slang to have an orgasm

  6. come off it! informal stop trying to fool me!

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How to use come off in a sentence

  • He wears one of the won't-come-off kind, and steps like he was feelin' good all over.

    Shorty McCabe | Sewell Ford
  • Knots of soldiers gathered about the tavern, and made a circle for the music to practise, preparatory to the great come-off.

  • And do not you see what a pretty and pleasant come-off there is for most of us, in this spiritual application?

  • And do you not see what a pretty and pleasant come-off there is for most of us in this spiritual application?

    Practice Book | Leland Powers
  • Come on into your telegraph-shop and let me hear you dictate that string of 'come-off' orders.

Other Idioms and Phrases with come off

come off

Happen, occur, as in The trip came off on schedule. [Early 1800s]

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