come off

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To become detached.

   “One of the wagon wheels came off.”

2. fiil To have some success; to succeed.

   “He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.

   “I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.

   “It came off as we expected.”

7. fiil To come away (from a place); to leave.

   “The 290 bus route comes off the A316 at Hanworth.”

8. fiil To finish being printed.

   “This one came off easily.”

9. fiil To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
10. fiil To stop playing (music).

    “I had to say, ‘Come off after the second beat, don’t hang on!’ (as per Mahler’s instructions).”