deliver the goods

1. 1.

   attain success or reach a desired goal

   “The enterprise succeeded”

   “We succeeded in getting tickets to the show”

   “she struggled to overcome her handicap and won”

   Synonymssucceedwincome throughbring home the bacon

   Narrowerhitpull offpassluck outnail downrunworkpan outachievearrive

Questions about deliver the goods

What does deliver the goods mean?

deliver the goods means "attain success or reach a desired goal".

What is another word for deliver the goods?

Close synonyms include succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deliver the goods a common word?

deliver the goods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.