| 词组 | off again, on again |
| 释义 | Idiom on again, off again and off again, on again Theme: CERTAINTY - LACKING uncertain; indecisive. (Reversible.)I don't know about the picnic. It's on again, off again. It depends on the weather.Jane doesn't know if she's going to the picnic. She's off again, on again about it. off again, on againIrresolute; wavering in certainty or constancy; inconsistent. Commitment from the board regarding the merger of the two companies has been off again, on again since the plan was first proposed. Mike and I were dating pretty seriously for about a year, but we've just been off again, on again since then. off again, on againIntermittently; at intervals. Also, capricious, fickle. This nineteenth-century Americanism was originally a railroad term referring to minor mishaps, in which a train went off track and then back on again. It was reinforced by a popular song of about 1910, “Finnigin to Flannigan,” by Strickland Gillilan, which went, “Bilin’ down his repoort, wuz Finnigin! An’ he writed this here: ‘Muster Flannigan—Off agin, on agin, Gone again.—FINNIGIN.’” Today the term is frequently applied to romantic and other relationships characterized by intermittence. It is, of course, a version of off and on, current since the mid-nineteenth century. |
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