| 单词 | off-the-wall |
| 释义 | off-the-wall[ awf-thuh-wawl, of- ] / ˈɔf ðəˈwɔl, ˈɒf- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR off-the-wall ON THESAURUS.COM adjective Informal.markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality. Origin of off-the-wallFirst recorded in 1970–75 Words nearby off-the-walloff-the-record, off-the-shelf, off the top of one's head, off the track, off the wagon, off-the-wall, off-topic, offtrack, off-trail, off-white, Off with her head! Off with his head! Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for off-the-wall
British Dictionary definitions for off-the-walloff-the-wall adjective(off the wall when postpositive) slang new or unexpected in an unconventional or eccentric wayan off-the-wall approach to humour Word Origin for off-the-wallC20: possibly from the use of the phrase in handball and squash to describe a shot that is unexpected Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with off-the-walloff the wall Eccentric, unconventional, as in That idea of opening a 100-seat theater is off the wall. This expression probably originated in baseball or some other sport in which the ball can bounce off a wall in an erratic way. [Colloquial; 1960s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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