off of

Idioms  

1. Away from, from, as in Don't take your eyes off of the road, or Can I borrow ten dollars off of you? This seemingly ungrammatical idiom has been used since the 1600s and remains current, but more in oral than written communications. Also see under get off, def. 8.

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Example Sentences

There, he was declared brain dead and, a few days later, taken off of life support.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“The president feeds off of that,” a source close to Trump told me.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

The Justice Department has charged an Army special forces soldier, alleging that he used one of the world’s ripest insider-trading platforms to profit off of advance knowledge of a military operation.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

A raft of earnings reports knocked the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite off of yesterday’s closing highs, even as chip stocks continued to surge.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

The regulation of genes—the selective turning on and off of certain genes in certain cells, and at certain times—must interpose a crucial layer of complexity on the unblinking nature of biological information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee