Sometimes it is just a one off, like a super storm or hurricane, although there seems to have been more done to protect the city I live in from the next unpredictable storm, than has been done to protect our students.
If you have a second shoulder-length glove on, take the first one off like you would with any other glove, then with the other one, take it off at the shoulder and moving it down so it turns inside on itself and keeps the other dirty glove inside as well.
"I can understand the argument against extending it too wide, in other words if a husband does something on a one-off like tearing up a credit card, that shouldn't give rise to any charges.
Then, there are the one-offs, like walking a loved one through your financial affairs, lest you meet an untimely demise and leave behind a confusing mess of records.
Away from the obvious candidates - Romelu Lukaku, Ross Barkley, Kevin Mirallas, Gerard Deulofeu and so on - it's not even one of the defenders or fringe players scoring a one-off, like Phil Jagielka's stunner at Liverpool last season.
Last year Deloitte ran 400 different programs, events and training sessions under the Women's Initiative umbrella, from one-offs like the two-hour March panel discussion on women's career paths, cohosted by client American Express, to the yearlong business-development program that coaches 30 female senior managers on how to hone presentations and build business-getting networks.
Evans was certainly not without flaws - he bought some poor players, he had no idea how to handle or utilise a one-off like Collymore, and he cut his players too much slack on occasion - but he is hardly alone in that.
Those collaborations can be one off - like, if I happen to be in London for a few nights, and I make a couple of tracks with Bok Bok, or whatever the case may be.
Every now and then a one-off like "The War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's World War II documentary, the most-watched PBS series in 10 years, comes along and makes a huge splash.
The big win for The Artist raises the question: is it a novelty one-off, like the once-garlanded and talked-about Life is Beautiful or The Crying Game?
Lately, TV people schedule around what is known as "event television," and it's not necessarily a weekly affair; instead, it's often a one-off, like the instant-to-Internet Netflix release, earlier this year, of all thirteen episodes of the first season of the American adaptation of the BBC's "House of Cards".
