wall off

wall off

To separate, segregate, or divide someone or something by erecting a wall or similar barrier. A noun or pronoun can be used between "wall" and "off." The government walled off the section of the archives that contained information about its rise to power. They've effectively walled our department off from the rest of the company with all these boxes.
See also: off, wall
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wall someone or something off

to separate or segregate someone or something by building a wall. She sat right across from me at her desk, listening to every phone call I made. Finally, the manager walled her off so we now can carry on our business in privacy. They walled off the south door to the building.
See also: off, wall

wall something off (from someone or something)

to deny access to an area by building a wall as a barrier. The manager was told to wall the incinerator area off from the machinery area. Please wall off the incinerator area.
See also: off, wall
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

wall off

v.
To divide or separate something with or as if with a wall: We walled off part of the room. The school walled the students off from the outside world.
See also: off, wall
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • wall up
  • wall-to-wall
  • go over the wall
  • off the wall
  • off-the-wall
  • writing
  • writing on the wall, the
  • go up the wall
  • rag off
  • broaden out
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Instead of remodeling the home, though, the couple used a simpler, less costly strategy to solve both problems: Rip out the concrete, terrace the sloping yard, then wall off the top terrace to create an outdoor room--and the illusion of a whole new house.
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To get to Jesus' traditional birthplace of Bethlehem, Benedict crossed through the towering concrete slabs of the separation barrier Israel has erected to wall off the West Bank's Palestinian areas.
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In signing the order and a second memo designed to wall off scientific research from political influences, Obama said a majority of Americans support lifting the federal funding ban, which would allow researchers to begin using hundreds of already-created embryonic stem cell lines for work on cures for cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's and other illnesses.
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GARY McLARDY found hartstongue fern, broad buckler, wall rues and maidenhair spleenworts on a wall off Lord Street West, Southport.
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He describes the roots of the wall in the Cold War politics of a divided Germany, the political process by which it was decided to wall off West Berlin, and the reactions of the Western powers.
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Co-workers tried to use car jacks to lift the wall off him, Detective LaMears said, but were unsuccessful.
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I find signs of hope for the church in: Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and in groups such as Essentials and the Prayer Book Society, who are not striving relentlessly to wall off the churches of Canada and the United States from our brothers in the Anglican Communion and indeed the entire holy, catholic and apostolic church.
Signs of hope ... in the form of a sparrow: in November, we asked Anglican Journal readers what signs of hope they saw in the church, in this time of shrinking membership and declining revenues. Paul MacLean reflects on the question below and other readers share their thoughts elsewhere on these pages
Fukuchi beat third baseman Toshiaki Imae's throw home with one out and the bases loaded for a 2-1 lead, and Fukuchi followed with a shot over the left-center wall off Masahide Kobayashi to put the game away in Pacific League action at Chiba Marine Stadium.
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In those instances, instead of trotting into the trap, the mole rats wall off the violated tunnel.
Naked and not: two species of mole rats run complex societies underground
Ultimately, for all the talk about sending messages to people who are positive, the real message of criminalization laws may be to everyone else: this troubling and complicated epidemic isn't your problem, it's that of monstrous outsiders who we can simply wall off from regular folks' lives.
Super infector: with the U.S. epidemic larger--and Blacker--than it's ever been, the growing consensus among health officials and community activists alike is that the only way to stop the spread of AIDS is to control the behavior of those who already have it
As New York Times columnist David Brooks recently reminded us, if there is a silver lining in the aftermath of Katrina, it is that we have an opportunity to leverage the attention and investment that the region is receiving to help rebuild stronger, more vibrant, and more inclusive communities--communities with a more equitable mix of incomes, that don't wall off large segments of the population in areas of concentrated poverty, and that provide a broader range of opportunities to residents.
Katrina calls attention to race and poverty in cities: many people of color and many of the economically disadvantaged remain walled off from opportunities, and in the case of Katrina, walled off from help in a time of crisis
The boy's mother was joined by regulars at the Old Bear, in Kidderminster, in the rescue operation as they battled to shift the three-foot wall off the boy.
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The blocking assignments are designed simply to wall off the playside defenders and prevent them from pursuing.
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When we react, the first action is to wall off the problem, to categorize it.
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