Adjective
1. not in operation or operational;
2. below a satisfactory level;
3. (of events) no longer planned or scheduled;
4. in an unpalatable state;
5. not performing or scheduled for duties;
Adverb
1. from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete);
2. at a distance in space or time;
3. no longer on or in contact or attached;
A squad of our troops held off six attacks of a numerically superior enemy.
The kitchen's off the dining room.
The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory.
He's always slagging his brother off.
He asked his father for the car, but his father said right off that he couldn't have it.
Save your breath; the boss will never give you the day off.
A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
The road branches off here.
Why haven't you got my letter? I sent it off last week.
If you live on a mountain , you live off the mountain ; if you live by the water , you live off the water.
Flicked the lint off the coat.
Good, you have exactly hit off the writer's style.
The newspaper blew off the table.
Responsibilities are not sloughed off so easily.
If plastic and rubber are burnt, they'll give off poisonous gases.
I rounded off the corners with sandpaper.
Let it cool off before you eat it.
She's been poorly off since her husband died.
He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife.
Why should it be put off till next month?
The singer was led off the stage by the maestro.
He slices off a thick piece from the loaf.
Every time I ask Bill to do a job for me, he skips off and plays with his friends!
I'm not going to be put off with that excuse.
Fools never know when they are well off.
The old lady looked a little off colour.
At least the club keeps the young people off the streets.
I could hear the director teeing off on his client's complaint as usual.
off and on
intermittently; now and then
pissed off
His face got all red-colored whenever he was pissed off.
He gets a little p'd like I'm making fun of him.
I was peed off to hear that party had been cancelled.
to d off
I' m not just to'd off! I' m enraged.
way off
I think you're way off base. Try again!
Sorry. You are way off. You shoutd just give up.
brown off
Musically …to break time out of tempos is to brown off.
back off
Hey. back off a little. I don't get you.
The bouncer of hotel backed a drunkard off.
off ones chump
You silly clown. You're off your chump.
You seem half off your chump this morning.
talk ones head off
I talked my head off trying to convince them.
beer off
Bill had called at the beer-off by the street-end.
brown somebody off
What he did really browned me off.
I'm afraid I'm going to brown off everyone，but here goes anyway.
shoot ones mouth off
Stop shooting your mouth off. Nobody believes you any more.
hit it off
How are they hitting it off these days?
They hit it off from the start.
He hit it off with the whole class.
no skin off my ass
Whether you make it or not,it's no skin off my ass.
come off
To everybody's astonishment, the scheme came off.
get ones rocks off
I've listened to the stuff,but I sure don't get my rocks off on it.
knock off
The store manager knocked 30 percent off the price of the coat.
They knocked off four window frames in an hour.
He knocked off a poem in 10 minutes.
He knocked off 3 opponents.
You couldn't knock off every objection.
One of those guys got knocked off.
The pair knocked off several shops, a bank，and some jewelry stores.
Local cops had free authority to knock them off.
scare the pants off somebody
The piano lid fell and scared the pants off my parents.
Shit or get off the pot.
The union leader wamed that the city had until Feb. 1 to shit or get off the pot.
haul off
She hauled off and decked him.
ripped off
I can determine that his car's ripped-off.
sound off
The leaders have sounded off on various issues.
Don't just sound off without raising your hand.
He's always sounding off about what a big shot he is.
Keep it a secret. Don't sound off about it.
suck off
You are just a plain old suck-off.
They did a suck-off thing.
jump off the deep end
He jumped off the deep end and got married again.
off brand cigarette
Max smokes nothing but those off-brand cigarette.
get somebody off the hook
He falls for Uona and winds up trying to get her off the hook.
There is relatively little information about off, maybe you can watch a bilingual story to relax your mood, I wish you a happy day!
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