Pull off

Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.

As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.

to pull off a heist

Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?

"Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.

‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’

The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).

In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.

(transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.

(intransitive) I think the car is overheating – we'd better pull off .