space off
space off
1. To be or become distracted, preoccupied, or unfocused from the present moment or the task at hand. A variant of "space out." Thomas, quit spacing off back there and pay attention! I love looking out the window on the train and just spacing off for a few minutes.
2. To be or become confused, disoriented, or stupefied, from or as from drug use. OK, Janet, I know you just took a lot of pills, but you need to stop spacing off for a minute and tell me where Stephen went! In the middle of his speech, he just spaced off and started muttering unintelligibly.
See also: off, space
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- space someone out
- spaced out
- be miles away
- a million miles away
- million miles away
- in a dwaal
- in a daze
- in a whirl
- take the Michael (out of someone or something)
- take the mike (out of someone or something)