coming off

Verb

come off (third-person singular simple present comes off, present participle coming off, simple past came off, past participle come off)

1. To become detached.
   • One of the wagon wheels came off.
2. To have some success; to succeed.
   • He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.
3. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm.
   • She turned and looked at him. ‘We came off together that time,’ he said. […] ‘Don't people often come off together?’ she asked with naive curiosity.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no....
4. To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
   • I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.

   Synonyms:

   come across

5. To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
   • It strikes me that you have come off uncommonly easy, seeing as how things were. No mess, no breakages, no odds and ends from every room that you can't remember until it's too late to claim. Just one big lot taken clean.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
6. To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
   • It came off as we expected.

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