carry off | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)Totransportaway.I need a truck tocarry offall this furniture.; (transitive)TostealorkidnapBanditscarried offmost of the money.1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall,A Wayfarer in China:In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, whocarried offboth trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.; (transitive,idiomatic)Toactconvincingly; tosucceedat giving theimpressionof (e.g.) knowledge,confidence, orfamiliarity.The actresscarried offa difficult performance with dash.2022, Chris Patten,The Hong Kong Diaries, Penguin UK,→ISBN:Given my general shape I'd look pretty ridiculous in the sort of outfit which, tocarryitoff, needs rather more height and less bulk than I have.; (transitive)Toachieve(something); tosucceedat (something).Synonym:pull offCoordinate term:carry outWe didn't think they'd finish by the deadline, but theycarrieditoff.; (transitive)To cause thedeathof.Malariacarried offmany people.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure[Fanny Hill], volume I, London:[…][Thomas Parker]for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths][…],→OCLC:I was now entering on my fifteenth year, when the worſt of ills befell me in the loſs of my tender fond parents, who were bothcarried offby the smallpox, within a few days of each other;[…].2016March 31, Celia W. Dugger, “Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World”, inThe New York Times:The bitterest loss was of her eldest daughter,carried offby malaria at 40 with a baby still inside her.; (transitive)To win (a prize, etc.).After a closely-fought match, Oxfordcarried offthe trophy.

Examples:

EN: – I'll carry off both of you, no-one will know.
ES: – Os llevaré a los dos; nadie lo sabrá.
EN: Nobody is going to carry off those paintings.
ES: ¡Nadie se va a llevar los cuadros!
EN: And carry off all my models.
ES: Y se llevan todas mis modelos.
EN: Gentlemen, could you find no better man to arrest and carry off in the middle of the night than me, that's having to work me hands off at me trade a- tailoring and a-stitching in a basement so cold and damp that I've caught me death of cold?
ES: Caballeros, ¿No pudieron arrestar a alguien más sospechoso en medio de la noche que a mí, que paso trabajando cortando y cosiendo en un sótano frío y húmedo donde muero de frío?
EN: The monks have been known to carry off a native woman.
ES: Los monjes saben algo de una nativa.
EN: You know the Arabs always carry off their own dead, Major.
ES: Ud. sabe que los árabes siempre se llevan a sus muertos, Mayor.
EN: We must carry off Cleopatra.
ES: Debemos llevarnos de aquí a Cleopatra.
EN: - Apaches carry off their dead.
ES: Se llevan a sus muertos.
EN: Did the gypsies carry off your baby sister many, many years ago?
ES: ¿Acaso los gitanos robaron a tu hermanita hace muchos años?
EN: ♪ There was nothing ever done ♪ ♪ To ever carry off a crown ♪ ♪ No one ever won ♪
ES: Nunca se ha hecho nada para llevar una corona, que nadie ha ganado nunca.
EN: We carry off your furniture, like bailiffs.
ES: Venimos a llevarnos sus muebles, como en un embargo.
EN: You carry off one grain of rice at a time.
ES: Se llevan el arroz un grano por vez.
EN: I just hope the credit company don't carry off my new Chevy before I can crash it into Brad's rear end.
ES: Solo espero que la financiera no se lleve mi nuevo Chevy antes de estamparlo contra la parte trasera del coche de Brad.
EN: Flagg, I think it's only fair to warn you that I am a sole survivor... of seven catastrophes... each of which was calculated to carry off every man jack... in the immediate neighborhood as well as adjacent.
ES: Creo que es justo advertirle que soy el único superviviente de siete catástrofes cada una de las cuales estaba calculada para matar a toda vida que hubiera en mi vecindario y alrededores.
EN: I've heard tell that eagles carry off babies.
ES: He oído que las águilas llevan a los bebés.

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