Sentence examples for hit the off button from inspiring English sources
Unless you went completely mental and hit the "off" button.
"It's not hard to understand why people don't reach their 30th birthday and hit the off button on Radio 1".
Once compulsory viewing, India's cricket team is increasingly driving its fans back home to hit the off button, as defeat follows defeat on its overseas tours.
Christopher Kuplent of Credit Suisse, an investment bank, reckons that German power companies could generate extra profits to the tune of €25 billion ($36 billion) before tax if they do not have to hit the off button.
The Indian cricket team is, "increasingly driving its fans back home to hit the off button, as defeat follows defeat on its overseas tours," Huw Richards wrote in the International Herald Tribune.
After I noticed that I had left my computer on all night, I wondered, fleetingly, if I could rig up a boxing glove on a spring to hit the off button at an appointed hour.
Even more than most celebrities, a reality-telly star needs the public to exercise the right not to know every detail of their life, so for the ongoing reality show that is The Jade Goody Story it is surely time for viewers to hit the metaphorical off-button and give this young woman the space and peace she may not actually want but certainly both desperately needs and deserves.
After spending too much time in the bathroom hitting the on-off button of the hand dryer, we will sit down to fruit salad, cake and milk for the girls, and coffee for me.
Kieren Clubb, shopping with his heavily pregnant partner, Dianne Goodlad, said that as a yes voter he had felt "a bit deflated" to hear the result, though having set his alarm to wake early, he admitted he had hit the snooze button when it went off and turned over to go back to sleep.
"If you hit the on/off button it only dims the clock, it doesn't significantly reduce power use," said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the natural resources council.
