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a bit off/a bit mental

not rational, unbalanced, one brick short Kate talks to the birds. Do you think she's a bit off?

a chip off the old block

a boy who is like his dad, the apple doesn't... Eric is a chip off the old block. He's just like his dad.

a little hair off the dog

(See hair off the dog)

a little off

not quite sane, a bit crazy, one brick short... When Clem started eating grass, we knew he was a little off.

a rip-off

unfair price or rule, priced too high The price of drinks was a rip-off. A small Coke cost $3!

a takeoff on

similar to, based on the same idea, a send-up The school play was a takeoff on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

back off

do not come closer, do not touch me Back off, you animal! Don't touch me!

be off

leave, go, off with you Be off, my dear, or you'll be late for work.

knock (the) spots off (someone or something)

To absolutely outclass, outdo, or beat addition or something; to acutely defeat or best addition or something. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Wow, this coffee knocks the spots off the being we get aback home. Catherine agape spots off the added kids in the spelling bee.Learn more: knock, off, spot

knock spots off

calmly outdo. informal This announcement may accredit to cutting out the pips (spots) on a arena agenda in a pistol-shooting competition. Although it is now begin chiefly in British English, the byword originated in America. 1997 Spectator [ Walter Laut Palmer's ] ‘Morning in Venice’ is a tour-de-force…It knocks spots off the neighbouring, acutely unattractive, Monet of a gondola. Learn more: knock, off, spot

knock ˈspots off somebody/something

(British English, informal) be actual abundant bigger than somebody/something else: This book knocks spots of all the added books on Napoleon. ♢ You’ll beating spots off her. You’re a abundant bigger player.Learn more: knock, off, somebody, something, spot

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be a piece of cake be all ears be-all, end-all be broke be fed up with (with someone or something) be in and out be my guest be my undoing be off be on the go be on the road be over be there be there for me be there or be square be to blame be up and running knock somebody sideways knock somebody/something into a cocked hat knock someone dead knock someone for six knock someone into the middle of next week knock someone off knock someone off their pedestal knock someone off their perch knock someone or something on the head knock someone out knock someone sideways knock someone some skin knock someone up knock someone’s block off knock someone’s socks off knock someone's block off knock someone's socks off knock something back knock something down knock something into a cocked hat knock something off knock something on the head knock something out knock something together knock something/someone into shape knock spots off knock spots off somebody/something knock spots off someone/something knock the (living) daylights out of (one) knock the bejeebers out of knock the bejeebers out of (someone or something) knock the bejesus out of (someone or something) knock the bottom out knock the bottom out of knock the bottom out of (someone or something) knock the daylights out of knock the dew off the lily knock the habit knock the hell out of knock the hell out of (one) knock the living daylights out of knock the props (out) from under (someone or something) knock the props out from under knock the shit out of (one) knock the socks off knock the socks off (someone or something) knock the socks off someone knock the spots off, to knock the spots out of (one) knock the starch out of (one) knock the stuffing out of (one)

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