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Discover LudwigThe phrase "be just off" is correct and usable in written English.
It simply means "to have just left" or "to have just gone away." For example, you might say, "My friend was just off to the store when I saw him."
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The screw should be just off center.
The museum's Lifelong Learning Center, scheduled to open in 2012, will be just off the main entrance, she said.
The 332-room Ritz-Carlton, Moscow will be just off Red Square, near the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.
It's not on the map but if it were, it would be just off the coast, near Penzance in Cornwall.
However, it was still at the time considered that the short appendix of the type of A. hildebrandtii was an artifact, but this turned out not to be the case when photographs by Stephan Vogel revealed an Amorphophallus seen at the Lokobé Reserve on Nosy Be, just off the NW coast of Madagascar.
I know because I've been in one of those meetings with the PM's researchers when they visited the area, specifically TechHub, a co-working space for tech people which, in my spare time, I've cofounded with Elizabeth Varley, which happens to be just off the Old Street roundabout where a lot of tech companies already are.
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So he begs Tracie to teach him to be just off-putting enough to attract women.
"David and Goliath" offers a cast and a battlefield so vast that Cecil B. DeMille must surely be just off-camera.
I'm just off a tick".
The prime minister's office is just off Manly Corso.
Do you say, "I'm just off for a … me"?
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