Could anybody, please, enlighten me as to what "off" means in the following excerpts taken from the script for the TV show "Breaking Bad"? (I've also come across the same use of "off" in other scripts).

Oct 1, 2015 · Flipping the Script, urban slang: fabricating an elaborate offensive deceitful defence of lies to throw attention off of them, turning the truth into a complete falsehood and using it against you...

@spiceyokooko While I appreciate the distinction in the length of the email, I think that formality should also be considered. To me it seems acceptable to add a postscript to an informal email, but sloppy to …

Dec 16, 2010 · In North America, it is synonymous with pissed off, but in the UK it means 'inebriated'. Also, we are fond of telling people to 'piss off!' which means something different still... I remember …

Apr 4, 2011 · Rather, the use of "post scriptum" indicates that something will be forthcoming, which I would set off from the "P.S." abbreviation using the colon. However, American and British English …

Oct 15, 2017 · The words board and deboard are used for getting on and getting off planes, trains, ships, busses, etc. From Oxford Dictionaries Online: US 1 [with object] To get off (a train, aeroplane, …

Nov 23, 2025 · This is a Hollywood script writer trying to be funny: We have the idioms: to pop one's cork. And: to pop one's cherry, which means lose one's virginity, but usually it applies to women, who …

Apr 6, 2012 · The better phrase to use to refer to the 3 dots being used to indicate a pause in speech is Suspension point, as we can read on Wikipedia: The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a …

When were numeric contractions for ordinals first used, as in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th instead of first, second, third, sixth?

Dec 15, 2014 · The OED's first citation for "bullet point" (in an online draft addition) is in 1983: 1983 Datamation Sept. 221/1 Each chapter concludes with a bullet-point list of ‘things to think about’ or …