be better off

Meaning

1. Oxford55% of films

   to be in a better or worse situation

   Hey, did you know if humans disappeared, the planet would be better off?

2. Oxford45% of films

   used to say that sb is / would be happier or more satisfied if they were in a particular position or did a particular thing

   You'd be better off asking him.

In the movies · 26

• the Millers would be better off.The Thin Blue Line1988
• Let's just hope that Henryk and Halina will be better off.The Pianist2002
• Hey, did you know if humans disappeared, the planet would be better off?Rescued by Ruby2022
• I'll be better off going alone.The Bank Job2008
• You'd be better off asking him.Oppenheimer2023
• I'd be better off in Longford.Michael Collins1996
• We'd be better off on that big bug.Star Wars: The Clone Wars2008
• I think you'd be better off here.The Father2020

Learn it in full scenes

• The Thin Blue Line1988
  • Randall Meets David at the Gas Station
  • Detective Forces Adams to Sign
  • Officer Wood Shot at Traffic Stop
• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• little better than
• that's better
• the bigger, smaller, faster, slower, the better
• discretion is the better part of valour
• two heads are better than one
• the best part of
• prevention is better than cure
• had better
• for better or worse
• get the better of
• so much the better
• a change for the better

More idioms

• get started
• hold your breath
• a whole lot
• any minute
• the middle of nowhere
• hang in there
• at the latest
• in the world
• that's better
• by accident
• not much of a
• a pain in the neck