Английский словарь американских идиом - throw off
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Throw off
throw off
{v.} 1. To get free from. * /He was healthy enough to throw off his cold easily./ Compare: RID OF. 2. To mislead; confuse; fool. * /They went by a different route to throw the hostile bandits off their track./ 3. To produce easily or as if without effort. * /She could throw off a dozen poems in a night./
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1. If you throw off something that is restricting you or making you unhappy, you get rid of it. ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past... One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off. = cast off PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 2. If something throws off a substance, it produces it and releases it into the air. The belt may make a squealing noise and throw off sooty black particles of rubber... = give off PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 3. If you throw off people who are chasing you or trying to find you, you do something unexpected that makes them unable to catch you or find you. He is said to have thrown off pursuers by pedaling across the Wisconsin state line... He tried to throw police off the track of his lover. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P n, also V n P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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verb Date: 1604 transitive verb 1. a. to free oneself from ; get rid of threw off his inhibitions b. to cast off often in a hurried or vigorous manner ; abandon threw off all restraint c. distract, divert dogs thrown off by a false scent 2. emit, give off stacks throwing off plumes of smoke 3. to produce in an offhand manner ; execute with speed or facility some little…tune that the composer had thrown off — James Hilton 4. a. to cause to depart from an expected or desired course mistakes threw his calculations off a bit b. to cause to make a mistake ; mislead 5. earn, generate an investment that throws off a sizable income intransitive verb 1. to begin hunting 2. to make derogatory comments ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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машиностр. механизм автоматического выключения подачи, автоматический прерыватель подачи ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1. отбрасывать, снимать to throw off one's clothes —- сбросить одежду 2. свергать to throw off the yoke —- сбросить иго to throw off one's pursuers —- избавиться от преследователей to throw off an illness —- избавиться от болезни, вылечиться 3. извергать, выделять; выпускать 4. легко и быстро сочинять (какое-л. произведение) to throw off a poem —- набросать поэму 5. вычитать, сбрасывать со счетов 6. спорт. выбивать to throw the runner off stride —- выбить бегуна из шага, сбить темп 7. охот. спускать (собак) 8. начинать (что-л.) 9. полигр. печатать, отпечатывать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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