off the wall
离墙,墙外,离墙而去,离墙而出
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Informal.
- : markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
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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.