tweak off
tweak off
1. To pluck, pinch, or twist something sharply in order to remove it (from something else). A noun or pronoun can be used between "tweak" and "off." She tweaked off the back panel of the gadget to get a look at its circuits. I went over to the rose bush and tweaked a flower off to give to Sarah. He tweaked the grey hair off of my head.
2. To make someone very angry, irritated, or annoyed. A noun or pronoun is used between "tweak" and "off." It tweaks me off so much to be stuck in traffic that I get up extra early to avoid rush hour. I don't know what tweaked him off, but he's been in a foul mood all morning.
See also: off, tweak
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
tweak something off (of) someone or something
and tweak something offto flick something off someone or something; to remove something from someone or something by pinching. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Sarah tweaked a little beetle off of Fred. Sarah tweaked off a little bug.
See also: off, tweak
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- base off (of) (something else)
- check off
- bite off
- blow off
- blow someone/something off
- blow off the map
- buck off
- brass off
- brass someone off
- brassed off