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deliver the goods
Idioms and Phrases
Do what is required, come up to expectations. For example, Kate delivered the goods and got us the five votes we needed . This phrase alludes to delivering an order of groceries or other items. [ Colloquial ; second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
But in this age of expensive and overwrought world-building, it’s Ellison’s experiential care with well-worn material that delivers the goods.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe questioned Farage's approach to leading the party and said he would need the "right people" around him to "deliver the goods".
"When as a captain with the next opportunity you deliver the goods - that will do wonders for him."
And he delivered the goods against the Auld Enemy once again, with the first hat-trick by a Scotland player against England in an individual performance that will go down in the annals of the sport.
"Liverpool's strikers were able to deliver the goods."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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