Pull off
Pull off verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
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Synonyms for Pull off
Take down
Take down verb - To reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes.
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- In one issue of Impulse, Max and The Trickster pull off a plot like this to take down a pair of mob bosses.
Source: We Would Have Told You, But... - Leverage: The team attempts to pull off one of their typical over the top-'noone could pull this off but us'-cons in "The White Rabbit Job" it goes horribly wrong and almost leads to the suicide of the mark—who it turns out wasn't actually a bad guy of the type they take down.
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