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Discover LudwigThe phrase "something off about" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feeling or intuition that something is not quite right or normal. Example: I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was something off about the new girl in class.
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There was something off about it.
And there's something off about the beauty of the bush.
But there is something off about our conversation.
Once he was aboard the Rose City, however, the hardened crew members knew there was something off about him.
Nick calls the police, of course, but there's something off about his reactions.
In fact, Soviet listeners, writing in approved publications, did notice something off about the symphony's ending.
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There was something seriously off about Cal.
And there was something off key about Germans, so soon after the end of the Second World War, railing about others being craven bystanders.
"There's often something off balance about the paintings," said her friend David Joselit, a Yale professor of modern art and a critic, "It goes back to physical comedy.
Peter Dante looks excited, yet apprehensive, as if something off camera is about to happen.
But there's also something off-putting about him.
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