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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

"Just keep your mitts off of it," she told him.

From Literature

She pushed a piece of cardboard off of her and saw that she was sprawled on her own living room sofa.

From Literature

But these elite athletes will also have something else on their minds: making it off of one of the ski world’s most feared mountains in one piece.

From The Wall Street Journal

The track begins with “Turbo Road,” a nearly vertical drop out of the gate that sent Sullivan flying off of his feet in 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal

Holdups don’t just snag the money flowing into construction, Lindsey said, “but the billions and billions of dollars of revenue that come off of the operation of that facility. It’s a wave of cascading earnings that are not being met.”

From The Wall Street Journal