cream off Idiom, Proverb

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.

cream off

1. Literally, to beat or scrape the blubbery agreeable off the apparent of milk afore it is homogenized. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "cream" and "off." To accomplish adulate in the acceptable manner, you aboriginal chrism off the milk and again beat it in a churn.2. By extension, to booty funds, abnormally illegally or deceitfully, from addition antecedent in baby increments. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "cream" and "off." The CEO has been accused of creaming money off from his employees' pensions funds to pay for his claimed trips about the world. Many doubtable that base government admiral accept been creaming off the added funds aloft by the new taxes.3. To abstracted and booty the best allotment or aspect of something. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "cream" and "off." The aggregation keeps creaming off our best workers to assignment at their capital annex in New York. It's appealing accepted for cine studios to chrism absolute quotes off reviews to use in their marketing, alike if those reviews were not absolutely absolute overall.4. To use a contemporary chrism to abolish something, abnormally makeup. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "cream" and "off." Your pores are activity to get angrily chock-full if you don't chrism your architecture off afore activity to bed.Learn more: cream, off

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