No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he wasoff with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundaryoff to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
Please switchoff the light when you leave.
The dinosaurs diedoff long ago.
So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
He bitoff the end of the carrot.
Some branches were sawnoff.
Please take your clothesoff so that I can examine you.
2010, Jo Whittemore,Front Page Face-Off, page113:
The space had been sectionedoff with colorful plastic shelves so that her textbooks rested on the bottom and her binders and personal effects lay across the middle.
Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g.bring off,show off,put off,tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
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(in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions)Circumstanced.
Our family used to be welloff; now we're very badlyoff.
How are youoff for milk? Shall I get you some more from the shop?
2008, Kiron K. Skinner with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Serhiy Kudelia,The Strategy of Campaigning:
'Are you betteroff now than you were four years ago?' With that pointed question, Ronald Reagan defined the 1980 presidential election as a 92 referendum on Jimmy Carter's economic policies
"But I'moff, Mr. Malone. We sit once a week and have done for four years without a break. Eight o'clock Thursdays."
1990, Peter Pinney,The glass cannon: a Bougainville diary, 1944-45:
Let them glimpse a green man coming at them with intent, and they'reoff like a bride's nighty. Even after capture some of them will seize every attempt to suicide — they just can't live with the tremendous loss of face.
He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chair in anoff corner and didn’t open his mouth.
Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
John'soff today. He's back on Wednesday.
Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took anoff day for fishing. anoff year in politics; theoff season
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2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, inthe Guardian[2]:
Most sorely missed is the relationship between Eggsy and Colin Firth’s delightfully avuncular mentor figure Harry Hart, who wasoffed, seemingly definitively with a bullet to the brain towards its end.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
