Sentence examples for off the dinner from inspiring English sources

KEEP IT SIMPLE William A. Ackman of Pershing Square — I see you over there with your PowerPoint presentation, trying to figure out how to spin off the dinner tables into a REIT, like you tried with Target.

Heidi Armbruster is touching as a maid, answering polite questions from her employer (Jennifer Van Dyck) about her impending retirement, hurt by being bid farewell so casually but unsurprised, after decades of being treated as just a detail to be checked off the dinner party to-do list.

Now, it's peeled off the dinner dress altogether, swapping it for overalls and taking the name Lowcountry.

And even when his daughter rolls peas off the dinner table, he see a teachable moment.

But that proves nothing: so is the suggestion to keep one's feet off the dinner table, which nevertheless remains pretty good advice.

I was nine and another girl and I had free school dinners because of the strike, and we got cuddles off the dinner ladies and sometimes extra dinners.

None of the bankers tried to pass off part of the dinner bill as client expenses.

You were invited to the White House for an off-the-record dinner during Obama's first year in office, along with some other presidential historians.

Last April, at an off-the-record dinner at the Brookings Institution, Larry Summers was confronted by a number of economists who believed that the financial crisis would not end unless the government took over stricken banks.

"Our mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power-brokers paid for by a sponsor," she wrote.

Anyway, the problem is not that some executive who thought he was at an "off-the-record" dinner said something so regrettably stupid.