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The phrase "pulled off the shelf" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, such as describing an action of taking something from a shelf or retrieving an object that has been stored away. Example: The librarian pulled the book off the shelf and handed it to the patron who had been searching for it all day.
Idiom
Off the shelf.
If a product is off the shelf, it can be used straightaway without any setting-up.
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Mr. Zabriskie estimates that a third of the books left on library tables at the day's end— the ones teenagers have pulled off the shelf to read for fun — are manga.
If Valeant couldn't succeed using a strategy in which it had real expertise — being a deal machine — how likely is it to flourish with one that it just pulled off the shelf?
Though repair work is going on around the clock, replacement parts cannot be pulled off the shelf because much of the equipment needs to be rebuilt or custom ordered, he said.
I went to Ovid, where women run from rapacious gods, and Dante, where women writhe in purgatory, and Homer, where women unravel their work, and finally I pulled off the shelf the old black leather-clad King James Version of the Bible I was given in high school.
They may not make much difference now, but one hopes that they could at least be pulled off the shelf and dusted down at some future point not least to suggest which policies were most misguided.
I know it's worn because it has been pulled off the shelf a thousand times, by a child who calls it their favorite.
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Her perfume, which had outsold scents by David Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and Sarah Jessica Parker, was pulled off the shelves.
She starts to gather up the shoes and bags she's pulled off the shelves to show me the details.
Only the chairs were overturned, at the center of the room; nothing else had been touched, nothing pulled off the shelves and thrown on the floor, nothing smashed.
Food safety officials in Austria and the Czech Republic said Sunday that small numbers of vegetables that had transited Germany were being pulled off the shelves there, The Associated Press reported.
Food safety officials in Austria and the Czech Republic said Sunday that small numbers of vegetables that had come from Germany were being pulled off the shelves there, The Associated Press reported.
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