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The phrase "off the book" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something that is not recorded or officially acknowledged, often referring to illegal or unofficial activities. Example: The company was paying some of its employees off the books, in order to avoid paying taxes.
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I picked it off the book shelf recently.
You drop off the book at your last stop.
Here's an easy one to start you off: "The book they tried to ban!
His strategy paid off: the book was the subject of a six-figure bidding war.
It paid off; the book, inspired by the murder of Damilola Taylor, was shortlisted for the Booker.
Word spread that an Israeli was present and Eichmann's planned visit to his wife and child was abruptly called off, the book says.
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Rogoff argues that the invisible large notes must be paying off-the-book wages.
The murders bring the police, whose investigation could put a crimp in the junkyard's off-the-book business.
There is another, off-the-book cost that is also being paid: billions in public incentives given to some of the richest companies in the world.
Thousands of African migrants, who have found shelter in the city's southern neighborhoods, working off-the-book jobs as dishwashers, cleaners, or cooks, had gone on strike.
It could even get to the point where the off-the-book offerings make it on to the books, they suggest.
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