come off

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come off

verb comes off · coming off · came off · come off

To become detached. One of the wagon wheels came off.
To have some success; to succeed. He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.
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.
To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality. I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.
Similar: come across
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.
To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up. It came off as we expected.
To come away (from a place); to leave. The 290 bus route comes off the A316 at Hanworth.
obsolete, of a printed sheet To finish being printed. This one came off easily.
transitive To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
intransitive To stop playing (music). I had to say, ‘Come off after the second beat, don’t hang on!’ (as per Mahler’s instructions).

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verb become detached

Français	se détacher, se décoller
Deutsch	sich ablösen, sich lösen, sich loslösen, abfallen
Русский	отвалиться otvalitʹsja, отсоединиться otsojedinitʹsja

verb to have some success

Deutsch	gelingen
Русский	удаваться udavatʹsja, преуспеть preuspetʹ

verb to appear; to seem; to project a certain quality

Español	parecer, salirle, dar la impresión de, aparentar, dar una impresión, expresarse

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@misc{come_off_2026,
  title = {come off},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20off},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}