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.
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...
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?
Help me please... Is is "laid off" or "layed off" from a job? Thanks.
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.
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.
I believe you, Bevj and loghrat. However, I can't understand why you can't "put a light off" if you use "put a light on." That seems strange and arbitrary. In my experience, AE speakers use "put out" regularly with flames on candles, matches, cigarettes and lighters, but they don't use "put" as a synonym for "turn" or "switch" in phrases about turning the lights on/off.
I would like to know what's "like water off a duck’s back" means in this phrase : He’s always being told he’s lazy and incompetent, but it’s just water off a duck’s back to him. My attempt "Él siempre le está diciendo que es un ocioso e incompetente, pero eso es" .... ¿como agua en la espalda...