deliver the goods

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Verb

deliver the goods (third-person singular simple present delivers the goods, present participle delivering the goods, simple past and past participle delivered the goods)

(idiomatic, informal) To do what was promised.
The government promised a lot, but failed to deliver the goods.
- 1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 85:
  […] many drivers who fired those engines in their hey-day have all confirmed to me thet they were free-steaming machines, which when pressed could "deliver the goods".

Translations

(informal) to keep one's promises

Finnish: täyttää lupauksensa, toimittaa (fi)
French: livrer la marchandise (fr)

References

“deliver the goods”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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