| 词组 | get off |
| 释义 | get off 1. get off sth • get off if you get off a bus, plane, large boat, train etc, you leave it: ▪ They saw Edwin getting off the ferry and raced to meet him. ▪ Get off the subway at Seventy-eighth Street - the restaurant is just across the street. ▪ This is where I get off - I'll call you! Bye! 2. get off • get off sth to leave your place of work when you have finished work for that day: ▪ I get off early on Friday, so maybe we could go to the movies or something? ▪ But she doesn't get off work until five thirty, so you know she won't be there until six thirty. 3. get off spoken to leave the place where you are or start a journey: ▪ What time do you want to get off in the morning? + to ▪ Right, I'll get off to the shops and get her the stuff that she wants. get sb off to help someone, especially a child, so that they are ready to leave a place + to ▪ I'll come round after I get the kids off to school. 4. get off to not be punished for a crime or something you have done wrong: ▪ If he gets off, it's because he has a smart lawyer. get off with a fine/2 months etc (=get a punishment that is less severe than you deserve) ▪ If she's very lucky, she may get off with a fine. get of lightly (=get a punishment that is less severe than you deserve) ▪ You got off lightly. You could have been sent to prison. get sb off not passive if a lawyer gets a criminal off, he or she succeeds in persuading the court that the criminal should not be punished: ▪ I know a man who killed his wife with a hammer. His lawyer got him off on a plea of temporary insanity. 5. get off sth • get sb off sth to stop being dependent on something that you used to have regularly, or to make someone else do this: ▪ I wanted to get off drugs, but my family wouldn't support me - they just didn't want to know. ▪ Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority. ▪ At this stage the mother should be getting the baby off breast milk and onto solid food. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑come off 6. get off the phone to stop using the telephone: ▪ I'm waiting for Veronica to get off the phone, so I can call Mom. 7. get off! • get off sth! spoken used to tell someone to stop touching you or stop touching something: ▪ "I'm going to tickle you!" "No, get off! Get off!" ▪ Get off those chocolates - they're mine! 8. get sth off informal to send a letter, package etc by mail, especially before a particular time: ▪ I have to get this application off today. + to ▪ I'll get that confirmation letter off to you as quickly as possible. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑send off 9. get off sth • get sb off sth to stop talking about a subject and talk about something else, or to make someone else do this: ▪ Can we get off politics and talk about something else for a change? ▪ The Minister was naturally anxious to get me off the subject of the" Save our Schools " campaign. 10. get off BrE to succeed in going to sleep, especially when this is difficult: ▪ I just couldn't get off last night - it must have been the coffee. get off to sleep ▪ When she finally got off to sleep, she was tortured by dreadful nightmares. get sb off BrE to succeed in making a baby go to sleep: ▪ Duncan's upstairs trying to get the baby off. 11. get off AmE informal to have an orgasm (=reach the point of greatest sexual pleasure): ▪ I just couldn't get off, so we went to see a sex therapist. 12. get off sth AmE to succeed in doing something: ▪ The Kings not only failed to get off a single shot but also gave up a short-handed goal. 13. get off sth AmE to tell a joke or say something funny: ▪ Lionel got off a one-liner about making more than the president because he had a better year than the president. 14. get off AmE spoken informal to have a good feeling because you have taken drugs: ▪ We did some speed, man, and really got off. + on ▪ Jack used to get off on cocaine, but he's straightened up now. 15. where does sb get off doing sth? AmE spoken used when you think someone has done something to you that they have no right to do: ▪ Where does he get off telling me how to live my life? ▪ I don't know where he get off treating you like that! 16. get off it AmE informal used to tell someone to stop talking or thinking about a particular subject: ▪ Get off it. If you want to talk about love, maybe it's better you talk about it without me around. 17. tell sb where to get off BrE spoken to speak angrily to someone because what they have done, said or asked is unfair, unreasonable, or rude: ▪ "Morris asked me to work late again." "Bloody cheek! I hope you told him where to get off." ■ SIMILAR TO: tell sb where to go |
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