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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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Example Sentences

I don't think just because Stokes has gone that it takes the heat off of anybody else.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

An estimated 20,000 people probably experienced “violent” shaking, as defined by the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, enough to throw buildings off of foundations and cause great damage in substantial buildings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

“Somebody is going to fall off of a balcony. All of the things that sound the alarm on: liability, liability, liability.”

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

“One of the vessels that we went to was showing that it was in Curaçao, but it was really off of Venezuela, and it was lightering oil there.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 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