DELIVER THE GOODS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deliver the goods mean? 

• DELIVER THE GOODS (verb)
  The verb DELIVER THE GOODS has 1 sense:

1. attain success or reach a desired goal

  Familiarity information: DELIVER THE GOODS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELIVER THE GOODS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attain success or reach a desired goal

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win

Context example:

she struggled to overcome her handicap and won

"Deliver the goods" entails doing...:

assay; attempt; essay; seek; try (make an effort or attempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver the goods"):

hit (hit the intended target or goal)

bring off; carry off; manage; negociate; pull off (be successful; achieve a goal)

clear; pass (go unchallenged; be approved)

hit the jackpot; luck out (succeed by luck)

nail; nail down; peg (succeed in obtaining a position)

make it; pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)

run (make without a miss)

act; work (have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected)

pan out (be a success)

accomplish; achieve; attain; reach (to gain with effort)

arrive; get in; go far; make it (succeed in a big way; get to the top)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

Give 'm a fair chance, an' if he don't deliver the goods, I'll kill 'm myself. There!

(White Fang, by Jack London)