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Do what is required, come up to expectations. For example, Kate delivered the goods and got us the five votes we needed. This phrase alludes to delivering an order of groceries or other items. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]

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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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Politico has reported that some Republican donors see Scalise as damaged goods.
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In fact, Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country on the planet except for Canada.
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Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
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Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall deliver more than they.
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She continued to deliver herself upon a hundred topics, and it hardly matters where we take her up.
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