Hi, kind people I have a confusion between get off work and take off work. I want to ask my friend when he stops his work at his job for the day. So should I ask him like this: "What time do …
Do you say 'get off the phone' only to someone who's talking on the phone with someone else? Or can it also be said to someone who's just playing with his phone, gaming, scrolling facebook …
Can somebody tell me the difference between tear up and tear off, as well as rip up and rip off ? And it seems that "tear" is also followed by other...
If you "work off something," you are using it as a resource or foundation. Here, there are few examples of this phenomenon, making the job of the experts more difficult.
With regards to "I have Fridays off", I think you're right in the sense that there's definitely an ambiguity: you'd need to follow up with another question in order to ascertain the reason why you …
Alarm goes off: "To go off" means "to trip, to start sounding". Something has triggered the alarm, and it went off (started sounding, flashing lights, what not). This is about the ACTION that …
Turn on the light Turn off the light Switch off the light Switch on the light but what about put on/off the light? Do they exist? What does it mean ? I saw them in the LongMan dicitionary but my …
I would like to know what's "like water off a duck’s back" means in this phrase : He’s always being told he’s lazy and incompetent, but it’s just water off a duck’s back to him. My attempt …
I take it to be offline, in the meaning of not actively linked to a computer or central computer. WR gives, under the entry offline, but under meaning 37 of 'line': 37 Off-line not actively …
Difference between tear up and tear off / rip up and rip off