Off

He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

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 was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off 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.

Please switch off the light when you leave.

The dinosaurs died off long ago.

He bit off the end of the carrot.

Some branches were sawn off.

Please take your clothes off so that I can examine you.

The space had been sectioned off with colorful plastic shelves so that her textbooks rested on the bottom and her binders and personal effects lay across the middle.

All the lights are off.

The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Your feet will feel better once those tight boots are off.

The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

This calculation is off: the numbers don't add up.

Is it right to say 'the amount of cars'? It sounds off to me.

The guitar isn't tuned properly. The bottom E is off.

I felt that his comments were a bit off.

sales are off this quarter

This milk is off!

Our family used to be well off; now we're very badly off.

How are you off for milk? Shall I get you some more from the shop?

'Are you better off 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

off to see the wizard

And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

—Hello, Bloom. Where are you off to? —Hello, M’Coy. Nowhere in particular.

"But I'm off, Mr. Malone. We sit once a week and have done for four years without a break. Eight o'clock Thursdays."

Let them glimpse a green man coming at them with intent, and they're off 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 took me down the corridor and into an off room.

the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse

He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chair in an off corner and didn’t open his mouth.

John's off today. He's back on Wednesday.

He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

I'll have the chicken please. — Sorry, chicken's off today.

The off front wheel came loose.

The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot.

He's off the roof now.

I took it off the table.

Keep off the grass.

The phone is off the hook

The coat fell off the peg.

He was thrown off the team for cheating.

We've been off the grid for three days now.

We're off their radar.

He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.

The suspect is now believed to be off the campus.

I couldn't see what it said because the line of text ran off the page.

off work; off school

His office is off this corridor on the right.

We're just off the main road.

Look! There's a UFO off our left wing!

The island is 23 miles off the cape.

There's 20% off the list price.

He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

He's off his meds again.

He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.

Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972

samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000

The guy was off a perc.

The team won off a late-game fumble by an opposing player.

The economy is rising off the strength of the tech sector.

Most sorely missed is the relationship between Eggsy and Colin Firth’s delightfully avuncular mentor figure Harry Hart, who was offed, seemingly definitively with a bullet to the brain towards its end.

Can you off the light?

He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

2023 Royal Ascot suit ... are you ready for the off?(title)