deliver the goods

Speech parts

1. deliver the goods - Verb

2. deliver the goods - Phrase

Meaning

attain success or reach a desired goal

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

win succeed bring home the bacon work function complete act perform finish execute triumph thrive flourish do fulfil
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Antonyms

bomb collapse fail default renounce contradict
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Hyponyms

work run act clear peg reach

Examples

I don't understand the difference between being a star and being an actress. If you are a good actress, you can also be a star but it does not work the other way round. You must be able to deliver the goods. Madhuri Dixit

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana. Conrad Burns

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians. George Bernard Shaw

Mussolini, Kemal, Pilsudski, Hitler and the rest can all depend on me to judge them by their ability to deliver the goods and not by... comfortable notions of freedom. Stalin has delivered the goods to an extent that seemed impossible ten years ago; and I take off my hat to him accordingly. George Bernard Shaw

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Words in the phrase

deliver the goods

Close letter words and terms

deliver speech deliver talk deliver the death blow deliver the message to Garcia deliver them deliver to