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- Im off today. Its my day off today. | WordReference Forums
Good day, I would like to ask if it is right to say "I'm off today " What I mean is that I'm not at work today because it's my day off Does it have a similar meaning to "It's my day off today ?" Thank you in advance
- get off work or take off work? | WordReference Forums
Hi, kind people I have a confusion between get off work and take off work I want to ask my friend when he stops his work at his job for the day So should I ask him like this: "What time do you get off work?" Or should I ask him another way: "What time do you take off work
- laid off or layed off - WordReference Forums
Help me please Is is "laid off" or "layed off" from a job? Thanks
- to get off the phone with somebody someone | WordReference Forums
Do you say 'get off the phone' only to someone who's talking on the phone with someone else? Or can it also be said to someone who's just playing with his phone, gaming, scrolling facebook etc?
- put on put off the light - WordReference Forums
Turn on the light Turn off the light Switch off the light Switch on the light but what about put on off the light? Do they exist? What does it mean ? I saw them in the LongMan dicitionary but my teacher said we couldn't use "PUT ON OFF Hello! I live in Toronto, Canada The 'correct' usage, as I understand it, is 'turn on off the light'
- I have Fridays off - WordReference Forums
With regards to "I have Fridays off", I think you're right in the sense that there's definitely an ambiguity: you'd need to follow up with another question in order to ascertain the reason why you have Fridays off; maybe you've asked to take them off, maybe your employer insists you take them off
- like water off a duck’s back - WordReference Forums
Like water off a duck's back (Traducción literal: el agua resbala sobre la espalda del pato) Las plumas de los patos están impermeabilizadas por un aceite que segregan sus glándulas exocrinas y, por eso, les resbala el agua en la que nadan y no les moja la piel
- go off of | WordReference Forums
Welcome, Philiponfire Personally, I might have used "a physical description to go on"; there are other options, of course For example, you could just delete the whole clause: "with only a physical description " Nonetheless, his phrasing, "only a physical description to go off of" strikes me as idiomatic in AE It sounds natural, despite its convolutions
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