off the record

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   if you tell sb sth off the record, it is not yet official and you do not want them to repeat it publicly

In the movies · 8

• So sometimes it got up to a quarter, off the record.All the President's Men1976
• Stop typing. We're off the record.The Social Network2010
• What the hell are we dealing with here? Off the record.X-Men: Days of Future Past2014
• Off the record? Off the record, yeah.Spotlight2015
• Off the record.The Life of David Gale2003
• This is off the record.Zodiac2007
• So, Kev, off the record...The Devil's Advocate1997
• You said it was off the record.Air2023

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story
• The Social Network2010
  • Erica Dumps Mark at the Bar
  • Mark Builds Facemash
  • Mark Crashes Harvard's Network
• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case

From the same entry

• for the record
• put on record
• put the record straight
• a matter of record

More idioms

• one of a kind
• be mixed up in
• this minute
• ask for it
• every last
• go so far as to
• for one thing
• in your right mind
• keep out of way
• rub up the wrong way
• a head
• by heart