bringing off

Verb

bring off (third-person singular simple present brings off, present participle bringing off, simple past and past participle brought off)

1. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
   • I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
2. To bring to orgasm.
   • And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
3. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
   • I'll be ta'en too, Or bring him off.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
4. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
5. (slang, transitive) To steal.
6. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.