词汇 | off the wall |
释义 | off the walloff the wall 1 → off-the-wall 2 informal very strange or unusual, often in an amusing way 古怪的;不同寻常的;奇妙的 Some of Krista’s ideas are a little off the wall. 克丽丝塔的一些想法有点新奇古怪。 Examples from the Corpus off the wall• The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them.• Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.• I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening.• A Whitney Houston tape echoed off the walls.• There's a woman just up the road so I hop off the wall and run after her.• The husband tried to seize a portrait of her, an oil painting, rip it right off the wall. → off the wall at wall1(4) |
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