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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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off of

He fixed his bat path, extending through the ball more consistently instead of pulling off of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

By using open-weight models, developers can piggyback off of existing efforts to develop AI without having to do as much hardware-intensive training work.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

That’s because Kelly’s best ideas aren’t banked off of events on a rote news-priority punch list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Not all retirees are well off, of course.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Suddenly angry, I grabbed the edge of the comforter and yanked it off of the girls on the bed, leaving them with only the thin blanket underneath.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall