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The phrase "a lost off" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It appears to be a combination of words that do not form a coherent expression.
Example: "I feel like I am a lost off in this conversation." (Note: This example is incorrect due to the phrase itself.)
Alternatives: "a lost cause" or "a lost opportunity".
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Spain took no action in 1985 when Mel Fisher found the Atocha, a galleon lost off Florida in 1622, and recovered about $400 million in treasure.
He was, for example, part owner with Gibbons of a ship lost off the Virginia coast.
The tag line for one of the films was even "A lost world shut off by a wall of ice, roamed by beasts unknown to science", which could have come straight from tabloid reports of the Russian drilling.
Not long into their flight, Mackay and the pilot, W. G. R. Hinchliffe, a man, were lost off the coast of Ireland.
In a series of madcap letters, an American intellectual in Miami Beach and his Asian wife, who is living in Italy, chronicle their fitful search for a treasure supposedly lost off the Florida coast in the 16th century.
A box of valuable jet aircraft parts lost off a truck on Interstate 95 in Fairfield County earlier this month has been returned.
Fernando Forestieri Sheffieldd Wednesday) Wednesday's Argentinian/Italian star striker cum crowd favourite may be fond of diving but 15 goals in 35 Championship appearances last season were rewarded with a (losing) play-off final appearance against Hull.
Of course, the game was not lost off a bad non-call for a maybe-tripping, but much earlier.
The family got into cars, the friends drifted off, a lost world dissolved.
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