off-piste

Definitions

Examples

• Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

• A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

• The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

• The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

• Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

• A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

• Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

• In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

• There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

• She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.