siphon off イディオム

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.

siphon off

1. To blot or draw off a aqueous from or out of something. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "siphon" and "off." The bandit was bent siphoning off gas from cars anchored about the city. You'll appetite to carry any balance oil off from the top of the solution.2. By extension, to booty funds, abnormally illegally or deceitfully, from addition antecedent in baby increments. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "siphon" and "off." The CEO has been accused of siphoning money off from his employees' pensions funds to pay for his claimed trips about the world. The sales abettor siphoned off money from the till for years afore she was assuredly caught.Learn more: off, siphon

siphon something off

(from something)
1. Lit. to blot or draw a aqueous off from something. Harry siphoned the chrism off the milk. He siphoned off the cream.
2. Fig. to abstract or abduct article a little at a time. The teller had been siphoning money off for years. she siphoned off a few dollars from the accumulating every anniversary or so.Learn more: off, siphon

siphon off

v.
1. To draw off or back article through or as if through a siphon: I acclimated a tube to carry off the balance baptize in the angle tank. The backyard mower ran out of gas, so we siphoned some off from the car's gas tank.
2. To adapted some money illegally or dishonestly: The managers were siphoning off money from the foundation and putting it into abstruse accounts. The absolutist siphoned millions of dollars off and hid the money in clandestine coffer accounts. Learn more: off, siphon

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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

siphon off イディオム

a bit off/a bit mental

a chip off the old block

a little hair off the dog

a little off

a rip-off

a takeoff on

an offer I couldn't refuse

another nail in your coffin

back off

be off

siphon off

siphon something off

siphon off

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