TO GET OFF

Definition: TO GET OFF

TO GET OFF

1. (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke. (b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a trial. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO GET OFF

You want to get off the highway will that make you happy (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Lisa, tell your mother to get off my case (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

And more than anything you want to get off and the only reason you don't is because it's fifty blocks till your stop ('Night Mother; writing credit: Marsha Norman)

We call her Turnpike, cuz you gotta pay to get on and pay to get off! (Truck Turner; writing credit: Michael Allin; Jerry Wilkes)

If you're not busy, Fred, I get off at two. Don't you think two's a good time to get off on (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

I'm on a ride and I want to get off (The Reflex; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Anyway it was 2 or 3, I had to get off the streets (You Make Me Sick; performing artist: Pink)

Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dr. Gallagher's Guide to 21st Century Medicine: How to Get Off the Illness Treadmill and Onto Optimum Health (reference)

• Letticia Cellbridge's Official Guide To Cell Phone Etiquette / 71 Reasons To Get Off The !@#XX Cell Phone by Sgt. Sam Hammer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill about to get off the caboose as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train pulls into a siding. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We got to get off.

As they come under one horizon, they shout their warning to get off the track to the other, heard sometimes through the circles of two towns

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

These projects are expected to get off the ground as soon as the SAG implements the new mining code that is still being revised. (references)

Children

Ethiopia

There are several NGO's that work with child prostitutes, including the Forum on Street Children-Ethiopia, which provides shelter and protection for child prostitutes trying to get off the streets. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

The Privatization Ministry's $4 billion two-year privatization plan has been slow to get off the ground, however. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "TO GET OFF": telling smb. where to get off. Additional references.

German

davonkommen (escape, get away, get away with it, get off, to get away), aussteigen (alight, bail out, bale out, cop out, cry off, disembark, drop out, exit, get off, get out, get out of a car, give up, jump off, jump out, opt out, pull out, retire, to disembark, to exit, to get out, to step off). (various references)

Hungarian

túlad vmin (to chaffer away, to get sg off one's hand, to make a clean sweep of sg, to make a clear sweep of sg), lemászik (climb down), elszabadul (break loose, get away, to break loose, to cut loose, to get loose, to get out of control, to get out of hand, to slip its chain), eltávolodik (make away, move apart, to diverge, to roll away, to shove off), eltávozik (come away, go away, to bow out, to clear off, to depart, to go off, to take leave, to take one's departure), felad (abandon, abdicate, cede, give in, give out, give up, mail, pass up, propound, renounce, to abandon, to abdicate, to cede, to chuck up, to despatch, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, waive), kiszáll (alight, get off, land, to disembark, to get out, to land, to rive), lecsavar (to screw off, to turn down, to turn off, to unscrew, to unwind, to wind off, unscrew, unwound), leemel (get down, get off, pull off, to get down), elindul (depart, get going, grant, start off, start out, to depart, to drop the flag, to get under weigh, to go forth, to hit the road, to put off, to sally forth, to set forth, to start, to start off, to start on one's journey, to start on one's way, to start out, to take the road), lelép (exit, step down, to clear out, to nick off, to piss off, to push off, to sign off, to step down, to step off, to vamoose, to vamose), zátonyról lesegít, leugrik (jump down, jump off, to spring down), leválik (get isolated, Peel, to come apart, to come away, to come loose, to come unstuck, to exfoliate, to get loose, to leave its seat, to peel, to peel off, to scale off, to spal, to work off), megúszik vmit, megment (rescue, save, to bring off, to bring through, to rescue, to salvage, to save), szabaddá teszi magát, szorult helyzetből kiránt, lejön (come down, descend, go down, take off, to be down, to come down, to come off, to get down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降りる (to alight, to descend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりる (to alight, to descend), のりすてる (to abandon). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay etgay offay.(various references)

Romanian

punere la punct a cuiva (teaching smb. to know one's place, telling smb. where to get off). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: foot, goof, otto, teff, toff, toft, toot, tote.

-5 letters: eff, eft, ego, fet, foe, fog, get, goo, got, off, oft, oot, teg, tet, toe, tog, too, tot.