Come Off

Definition: Come Off

Come Off

Verb

1. Come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery".

2. Happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?".

3. Break off; of a piece from a whole; "Her tooth chipped".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Come Off

Disjunction

Verb: be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.

Dissuasion

Loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of escape.

Escape

N.escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion; (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.

Success

Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.

Crosswords: Come Off

You come off it (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Oh, just come off it, Doralee (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

So I basically come off as this big, dumb, fat, unemployed loser (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I'm just trying to make it all balance, do I come off defensive (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I'll try, but I don't think they'll come off! (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney)

The Wedding That Didn't Come Off (1910)

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Come off your perch!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Columbus, Ohio. A bus driver who has just come off his run. Credit: Library of Congress.

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Finally, the new vehicle market in China is growing, making it easier to impose standards as cars come off the assembly line or through customs on imported vehicles. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "come off": come off badly ♦ come off best ♦ come off cheap ♦ come off guard ♦ come off in scales ♦ come off it! ♦ come off second best ♦ come off smth. ♦ come off something ♦ come off the best ♦ come off the boil ♦ come off the winner ♦ come off well ♦ come off with a small loss ♦ come off with flying colours ♦ come off your perch! ♦ To come off ♦ To come off by ♦ To come off from ♦ To come off with flying colors. Additional references.

Albanian

zhvillohet (proceed, work up), shkak (account, cause, motivation, motive, occasion, parent, reason, root, score, spring), pretekst (pretext, stalking horse), ndodh (become, befall, chance, come about, come to pass, eventuate, exist, fall, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, set, transpire), ia dal (come through), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وقع (be located, befall, come, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, supervene, take place, tumble, underwrite), ‏حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слизам от, откъртвам се (break loose, give away), отлепвам се (get unstuck), завършък (completion, consummation, finality, terminal, termination), претекст (alibi, color, colour, excuse, peg, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, put off, salvo, stalking horse, subterfuge), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

剝離 (be stripped, peel off). (various references)

Czech

zmizet (clear, clear off, come out, decamp, disappear, drop out, make off, push off, vanish), zdařit se, vzdát se èeho (abandon, throw over), vypadnout (bugger off, come out, drop out, fall out, go out, make off, push off), vyjít (appear, come out, come up, go out, pan out, turn out), utrhnout se (break away, break loose), upadnout se, ulomit se (break off), slézt (climb down, come out, dismount, get down), odejít (come away, depart, go away, go off, go out, leave, make one's exit, make tracks for, move away, move off, quit, retire, stir, to leave, vacate, walk away, walk off), konat se (be, be held, take place). (various references)

Dutch

afgeven (deposit, spread). (various references)

Finnish

toteutua (be fulfilled, be realized, come true, materialize, work out), selviytyä (clear, cope with, get out of, pull through), lähteä (come loose, come out, depart, go, leave, set out, start), irrota (be unfastened, come loose, loosen). (various references)

French

cesser, tomber (collapse), se produire (come, come by), se décoller, marquer (let go the colour), déteindre (let go the colour), avoir lieu (come, come about). (various references)

German

weggehen (come away, get off, go, go away, go off, go out, going, move away, quit, stop, wander off), stattfinden (be held, come about, happen, occur, take place, to take place), springen (bounce, bound, branch, burst, crack, dive, diving, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, nip, pop, pounce, skim, skip, skip about, spring, sprung, spurt, to jump, to skip, vault, vaulting), sich lösen (be solved, break loose, come adrift, come undone, come unscrewed, detach oneself, dissolve, draw apart, ease, get loose, go off, loosen, melt away, part, Peel, peel away, relax, resolve itself, slip, soak off, split off, unravel, unscrew), sich ablösen (alternate, become detached, peel off, relieve each other, slough, soak off, take turns, work in relays), runterfallen, losgehen (charge, go at, go off, go up, lay into, make for, set off, start, start in, start off, to go off), klappen (bang, clap, click, flap, flaps, fold, put, rattle, work, work out), fallen von, ausreißen (abscond, bolt, break away, come away, come out, eradicate, pluck, pull out, run away, tear, tear out, weed out, yank out), aufgehen (arise, ascend, be taken up with, become apparent, come out, come undone, come unstitched, come up, dawn, get up, go up, lift, open, open out, open up, opening, Orient, rise, rising, to rise, unfasten, unzip, work out), abspringen (back out, bale, bale out, bounce off, chip, dismount, flake off, jump, jump down, jump out, opt out, parachute, peel off, take off, to jump off), abgehen (abort, be deducted, be dispatched, come away, depart, digress, exit, go off, jump down, lead off, leave, make a draft, pace out, part, pass out, patrol, rub off, sail, shift, wear off), abgeben (cast, check, concede, deliver, dispense, emit, exhale, express, fire, get in, give away, give in, give off, give up, hand in, hand over, leave, make, pass, put out, relinquish, render, resign, send out, submit, throw off, throw out, to deliver, to dispense), abfaerben (chalk, let go the colour). (various references)

Greek 

πετυχαίνω (bring off, do the trick, succeed). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"� תק (be broken, be disconnected, come off something, tear away, tear oneself away), ל� חול תבוס�" (come off second best, suffer a reverse, sustain). (various references)

Hungarian

leszakad (break off, to break away, to come away, to come off, to founder, to sliver, to split off), leesik (drop off, fall off, have a fall, to come mucker, to drop off, to fall off, to plummet, to slump, to tumble), következtetés (conclusion, consequence, deduction, derivation, discursiveness, eduction, illation, induction, inference, syllogism), elválik (divorce, get divorced, part company, sunder, to disengage, to divorce, to get divorced, to move apart, to part, to separate, to sunder). (various references)

Italian

stingere (chalk, let go the colour), realizzare (accomplish, achieve, actualize, carry out, clear, come true, fulfil, fulfil oneself, fulfill, fulfill oneself, implement, realise, realize, to realise), distaccare (break off, detach, detail, leave behind, separate), avvenire (come about, future, futurity, happen, hereafter, occur). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剥 (be worn off, discolor, fade, peel off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はく (be worn off, chief official, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), cheet neose jeh (step off), cheet jeh (chip off). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay offay.(various references)

Portuguese

escapar (bypass, dodge, escape, evade, flee, get away, get away with, leave out, omit, overlook, run away, run off), acabar-se (peter out). (various references)

Romanian

coşcovi (shrink), se detaşa (break away, come away, detach oneself, separate), se desprinde (come undone, fall, fall off), se desface (burst, disentangle, unfold, unwind), descleia (unpaste). (various references)

Russian 

срываться, сходить (alight, come off smth., descend, descended, get down, sloughed, sloughs, step down), уловка (artifice, circumvention, dodge, double cross, expedient, gimmick, put off, ruse, shift, shuffle, stealth, stratagem, strategem, wangle), соскочить, сойти (get off, go down, leave), смываться (slip away, wash off), завершение (accomplishment, closure, completion, consummation, cope-stone, denouement, end, finishing, follow through, perfecting, rundown, termination). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvojiti se (branch out, hive off, separate, tear oneself away), odlomiti se, odlepiti se, odlemiti (break off), nestati (disappear, evanesce, evanish, fade away, go south, wear off), iščileti (die away, disappear). (various references)

Spanish

caerse (come down, drop, fall, fall down, fall over, go down, like, pitch, shank off, topple, tumble, tumble out), cesación (cessation, curtailment, diminution, liquidation), ocurrir (befall, betide, come, come about, go on, happen, occur, pass, take place), andar (carry, footing, function, get along, get up, go, go about, go around, hang about, hang around, home in on, lark, live, pad, perambulate, stroll, tough, tramp, trip, walk, wend one's way), dar resultados (act), dejar ir, dejar olvidado, desprenderse (become detached, break away, break off, come away, drop off, drop out, fall away, fall off, fall out, fly off), desprenderse de (come adrift, get rid of, Slough), ir hasta el fin (go the whole hog, slip), irse a otro lugar (go away), legar (bequeath, devise, leave, legate, take away, throw down, will), lograr (accomplish, achieve, attain, bring off, engineer, get, get off, jockey, land, obtain, pick up, pull off, reach, thread, throw out, touch, vanquish, win, wish, work), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield), marcharse (clear out, come away, depart, drive away, drive off, get off, go, go along, go away, go down, go off, leak away, leak out, leave, quit, take away, tear down, throw down, throw over, toddle, troop, trot, trot along, trot away, trot off), viajar (drive, get around, go, journey, live, ride, to travel, tour, travel, traveling, wander), olvidar (condone, forbid, forget, get over, leave, leave behind, leave out, leave over, lie back, neglect, omit, sink, take away, tear down, throw down), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over, walk away), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come up, drop, fall on, fall upon, jack in, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stay, stick around, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), resultar (bring about, follow, point out to be, prove, result, take, trace, turn out to be), salir (absent onself, break, break out, come out, come up, depart, departing, drive away, drive off, emancipate, emerge, exit, get away, get out, get over, go, go away, go off, go on, go out, issue, lead off, leak, leave, leaving, line out, lurch out, march out, pan out, pass out, Pierce, pop out, protrude, pull out, push through, put off, put out, radiate, rise, sail, sail out, set forth, set forward, set out, shoot out, shoot up, stand out, start off, step out, stick out, take away, take off, take out, throw off, to leave, troop, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn up, walk out, wash off), soltarse (come away, leak, loosen, work off), tener éxito (be successful, get on, make the grade, pan out, score, succeed, take, win, win out), tener lugar (come about, happen, occur, take place, transpire), tener sitio, venderse (give oneself away, go, go for, sell, sell oneself), verificarse (aver, happen, prove), marchar (act, come by, come in for, direct, go, go away, go off, kick around, leg, let, let off, level, live, March, move, sail, tick away, tick by, toddle, toil, track, tramp, travel, trip, troop, trot, tumble over, turn about, walk, work). (various references)

Swedish

slut (at an end, close, closure, colophon, conclusion, demise, disposed of, done in, done up, end, ending, exhausted, expiry, finish, finished, gone, heel, net, out, over, tail, termination, upshot, washed up, wind up), ramla av, lyckas (click, contrive, get ahead, luck out, make good, manage, pan out, succeed), lossna (come away, come loose, fall away, get loose, loosen, unscrew), gå ur (come out, escape), gå i lås (latch, lock), få orgasm (come), bli av (come about, take place), avgå från (leave), äga rum (happen, take place). (various references)

Turkish

olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, mature, occur, take place, turn), meydana gelmek (begin, come about, consist, consist of, eventuate, hap, happen, occur, originate, set in, take place), kopmak (blow up, break, break off, detach, fly off, part, rupture, separate, sever, snap, split, sunder, tear), elde etmek (achieve, acquire, attain, carry, clear, conquer, gain, get, have, make, obtain, procure, purchase, secure, suck, take, win), dökülmek (be poured, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

яokuюmak, яokmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

відмовка (excuse, pretence, pretense), відбуватися (arrive, be in progress, betide, come about, develop, emanate, hap, happen, intervene, occur, proceed, transpire), відписка, мати успіх (be successful, carry forward, get home, go over with a bang, ring the bell), зникати (die, die down, disappear, dispel, dissipate, evanish, go out of being, ooze, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, vanish, walk, wan, wear away), завершення (achievement, close, closure, completion, conclusion, consummation, copestone, coping stone, ending, finality, finishing, fulfilment, perfecting, wind up). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: coff, come, coof.

-4 letters: coo, eff, emf, fem, foe, moc, moo, off.

-5 letters: ef, em, me, mo, oe, of, om.