Everybody thinks he's off drawing rockets or building a battery that can power your entire home.
Mhairi Black, the prodigy from Paisley who beat Douglas Alexander, Labour's campaign organiser and shadow foreign secretary in May, is off like a rocket.
Even measured by technology's fast clock, 2007 is off to a rocket start.
And if the fuze's timing was off, he said, the rocket would strike the ground or a building, the fuze would shear off and the apparatus would fail to explode.
The igniter took a few seconds to heat up and my rocket was off, whizzing down the yard at the shed like, well, a rocket.
Then we're off to Nammo for the high-powered rocket firings, simulating the profiles that we'll be using later this year in the desert.
Filmed in Brooklyn by way of Southern California, "Rocket Fuel" is off Shevy Smith's Ad Astra record, which was released this May.
But once a solid-fuel rocket is ignited, it is off like a firework and keeps going until all the fuel is burned up.
The HTV-2 was designed to be launched off a rocket, and then glide, unpowered.
All independent radio stations have been off-air since they came under rocket and arson attack after the coup that attempted to overthrow Nkurunziza in May.
Imagine going to work memorizing the nearest bomb shelter location, putting off important client meetings or major presentations for fear they'd be cut off by rocket fire.
