go off

Meaning

1. Oxford55% of films

   to leave a place, especially in order to do sth

2. Oxford25% of films

   to be fired; to explode

   But it doesn't go off.

3. Oxford5% of films

   to happen in a particular way

4. Oxford5% of films

   if an alarm, etc. goes off, it makes a sudden loud noise

In the movies · 128

• "...when the gun went off by accident in my hand...The Lady from Shanghai1947
• Hello girls.The Spanish Prisoner1997
• My alarm didn't go off.Miracle Mile1989
• Let's go off the record.Mommy Dead and Dearest2017
• But it doesn't go off.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• And you go off like that.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
• We gotta go off the grid now.xXx: State of the Union2005
• Triggers the device to go off.Moonfall2022

Learn it in full scenes

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
  • Walter Calls eHarmony for Help
  • The Office Learns It's Acquired
  • Walter and Cheryl Meet at the Office

From the same entry

• anything goes
• as people, things, go
• be going on
• be going to do
• don't go doing
• enough to be going on with
• go all out for
• go and do
• go off on one
• go on
• a lot, nothing, going for you
• no go

More phrasal verbs

• come through
• drop out
• stand by
• look around
• fill up
• come by
• live together
• go by
• clean up
• walk away
• come down to
• feel up to