come off
verb
came off; come off; coming off; comes off
2
: succeed
a television series that never came off—
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US, informal
—used in phrases like where do you come off? to express anger or annoyance at what someone has said or done
Marie was bent over the table now, reading, her piping girlish voice hot with indignation. "Where does she come off, anyway?"—T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle1
: to have recently completed or recovered from
coming off a good year
2
: to have recently stopped using (an illegal drug)
an addict who is coming off heroin
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Examples of come off in a Sentence
couldn't believe that the wedding would actually come off—they've been “just dating” for years
the attempted revival of the city's downtown never really came off, and even more stores eventually closed
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After chips come off the high-end fabrication lines in the United States, much of the testing, packaging, and assembly will be done in lower-income countries, a system that keeps costs down but preserves production jobs at home.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Sacramento is coming off its first game of the season in which the entire roster was healthy and available with De’Aaron Fox’s comeback from a glute contusion, but that only lasted one game.
—Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 14 Jan. 2025
In the years since Trump’s first election in 2016, and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, the wraps have come off.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
When continental ice sheets melt, water comes off in big rivers that dig lakes in stream valleys and pile up gravels as hills.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Sacramento is coming off its first game of the season in which the entire roster was healthy and available with De’Aaron Fox’s comeback from a glute contusion, but that only lasted one game.
—Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 14 Jan. 2025
In the years since Trump’s first election in 2016, and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, the wraps have come off.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
When continental ice sheets melt, water comes off in big rivers that dig lakes in stream valleys and pile up gravels as hills.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Come off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20off. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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