The phrase "act off" is not correct and does not have a clear meaning in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of acting based on something, but it is not a recognized expression.
Example: "I don't understand why you would act off such limited information."
Alternatives: "act on" or "respond to".
Try and act off the spectrum #leadersdebate Not that it seems to have affected his popularity.
But to pull the act off, Watto would have had to stop caring.
The president may be unable to control his former colleagues, who often act off their own bat.
Hopkins provided Twitter commentary during the leaders' debate in early April, and asked Miliband to "act off the spectrum" and said he looked "just plain weird".
On the other side of the line, to the west and south, are Iraqi regular-army troops sent by the central government in Baghdad to stop ancient cities along the Tigris river falling into what it fears may become a purely Kurdish sphere.The two forces have come close to flat-out fighting several times, usually outside the cities where commanders act off their own bat.
The feature debut of Irish playwright and writer/director Martin McDonagh (who won an Oscar two years ago for best live action short), it's a masterful character piece, ostensibly a comedy-drama about hit men in Belgium but really a showcase for Colin Farrell and the Brendan Gleeson to act off each other.
Riding the crest of the play's popularity, Mr. Pastore and the rest of the original cast took their act Off-Broadway, and the play enjoyed a successful five-week run on Theater Row.
The CHOICE Act off-ramp employs an approach much closer to this reality, so hopefully Congress can eventually work out a compromise that looks more like the CHOICE Act off-ramp.
It was here that Richard Wagner performed the world premiere of Die Walküre, himself singing the first act (off-key), accompanied by his father-in-law, Franz Liszt, on the piano.
We further examined and ruled out the possibility that these inhibitors act off-target to produce the observed effects by the findings that dominant negative MEK-1 expression significantly enhanced HCV replication.
Mr. Duchovny, right, said in a phone interview he has previously acted "Off, off, off, off — as many offs as you can put in front of Broadway".
