Talk:be off

be off
2 senses:
 * 1) To be working against a present or former addiction to (something.)
 * I've been off drugs for almost a month.
 * 1) To be away from (something.)
 * She's on vacation, so she'll be off the net for another week.

Both look like misconstructions by the contributor of be: + prepositional phrase headed by off:. The first is sense 6 of off; the second is sense 3. DCDuring TALK 22:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. "To be working against [...] addiction" is outright wrong, since the given example says "I've been off drugs for almost a month"; that doesn't mean he's been working against addiction for almost a month, but actually not taking the drugs, therefore the def is wrong. It's simply be + off. The same SoPness applies to the other sense, "off the net" (Internet). Compare e.g. (from Google Books) "small talk was off the agenda", "I'm sure that I am off her list as a prospective customer"; and with other prepositions, e.g. "I'm out of here" does not mandate an entry for be out; "is he over his ex-girlfriend?" does not mandate an entry for be over. Equinox ◑ 22:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, for the reasons above. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:42, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 19:26, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Just a bad lemma entry altogether. Senses, if valid, should appear in off. Delete. I am surprised he didn't create be on - He's been on drugs for three weeks.. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 20:49, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. I am now convinced that all of the senses at be off are SoP once we have the required additional senses at off:. MWOnline has six senses (16 subsenses), including "started on the way"  and "circumstanced" , which are the senses of off required for the unchallenged senses of be off, including this one. See WT:TR. DCDuring TALK 21:04, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I can vouch for sense 2 at least - that one is definitely SoP, but we need a sense of off that means "offline, away". -- Liliana • 21:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — Ungoliant (Falai) 17:44, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Other senses of be off
RfD-sense X 2:

3. To leave.
 * I'll be off in a minute.
 * I'm off — see you later!

4. To be in possession of money (unexpressed) or something else (expressed).

I have added senses at off: to cover these senses of be off. Thus all the senses of be off are under challenge. DCDuring TALK 21:33, 20 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Deleted. No opposition. The only remaining definition would be “Used other than as an idiom”, but since there is no idiom anymore I deleted the whole entry.. — Ungoliant (Falai) 17:44, 13 August 2012 (UTC)