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off the wall

/awf-thuh-wawl, of-/US // ˈɔf ðəˈwɔl, ˈɒf- //

离墙,墙外,离墙而去,离墙而出

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.

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Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

  • He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.