deliver the goods

verb

Definitions

  1. To do what was promised or expected.

    • The government promised a lot, but failed to deliver the goods.
    • […] many drivers who fired those engines in their hey-day have all confirmed to me that they were free-steaming machines, which when pressed could "deliver the goods".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deliver the goods. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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