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[영어표현] 해결되다, 해내다, 통하다, 성공하다

does the trick

 

A : It feels like my phone has gotten really slow lately.

B : 껏다 켜봤어? 그러면 해결이 될 때도 있는데..

Have you tried turning it off and on?

(Have you turned it off and on? 보다 그 행위를 시도했다는 면에서 더 좋은 표현)

Sometimes that does the trick.

A : Yeah, I tried that earlier but it didn't work.

 

We (finally) did it!

(made it 보다는 상대적으로 표면적인 느낌)

 

We (finally) made it!

It took some time but we made it there safely.

I can't believe we made it this far.

(물리적인 거리+추상적인 목표로 가는 길에 있는 위치)

I always knew she would make it.

 

pull off

I pulled it off.

I can't believe I pulled it off.

If we can pull this off, we won't have to worry about it for another year.

Do you think you can (really) do that?

Do you think you can (really) pull that off? (좀 더 어렵고 까다로운일인데 할 수 있겠냐는 의미)

 

get away with

You're never going to get away with that (this)!

(Do) you think you can get away with that (this)!

너 그러고도 (이러고도) 무사할 줄 알아?

 

A : 그냥 집에 급한 일이 있었다고 하면 넘어갈 수도 있어.

Just tell your boss that you had a family emergency. 

You might get away with it.

(Maybe you can get away with that)

(He might let you get away with that. 넘어가 줄 수도 있어.)

 

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do the trick

ex) This sauce needs more flavour - I know, some lemon juice should to do the trick.

ex) The recipe calls for pancetta, but I think this regular baon should do the trick.

ex) I turned it off and back on, and that did the trick.

ex) Sometimes a few choice words will do the trick.

ex) It certainly seemed to do the trick.

ex) The secodn surgery on my knee seemed to do the trick.

 

pull off

ex) She pulled off a surprise victory in the final.

ex) They nearly managed to get the loan but just failed to pull it off.

ex) He won five straight games and pulled off one of the tournament's biggest upsets.

 

get away with

ex) They have repeatedly broken the law and got away with it.

ex) Some of those children get away with murder.

ex) At school he had always got away with doing the bare minimum amount of work.

ex) He's not going to get away with it where he is.

ex) How did he imagine he was going to get away with it?