deliver the goods

Questions about deliver the goods

What is another word for deliver the goods?

It depends which deliver the goods you mean. In the sense “attain success or reach a desired goal”, the synonyms are succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of deliver the goods?

WordNet records no antonym for deliver the goods. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for deliver the goods come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of deliver the goods

• Full entry for deliver the goodsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for deliver the goodsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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