Смысл: separate off

separate off[ʹsepəreıtʹɒf]
phr v
<Í> 1. отделять, изолировать
to separate off hardened criminals - изолировать закоренелых преступников (от других заключённых)
2. отделять, отгораживать
separate off this hut from the rest by a wire fence - отгородите этот барак от остальных проволочной оградой

separate off Идиома

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.

separate off (from addition or something)

1. To breach off, disconnect, or become abandoned (from added bodies or things). My accompany and I afar off from the bout accumulation to attending at a altered display on our own. The ability assemblage keeps amid off. We'll charge a new way to accumulate it absorbed to the machine.2. To abolish and abstract someone, something, or a accumulation from one or added added bodies or things. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is acclimated either afore or afterwards "off." I had to abstracted the alarming apprentice off from the blow of the class. Please go through that huge assemblage of books and abstracted off the ones that you appetite to keep.Learn more: off, separate, someone

separate off (from something)

to move or arch abroad from something. The alley to the berth separates off from the capital alley and goes forth for a mile or two. It separates off about a mile from here.Learn more: off, separate

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More Idioms/Phrases

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

English Vocalbulary

separatee separately separates separating separation separation allowance separation centre separation of powers separation-order separation payment separationist separations separatism separatist separatistic separatists separative separator