start off

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to begin by doing or being sth

In the movies · 24

• Now to start off, I want you to read these books.The Sword in the Stone1963
• Well, I doubt it started off as pesos.All the President's Men1976
• First, we'll start off with a little five-card stud.How the West Was Won1962
• Yeah, but, you know, you start off...The Wolf of Wall Street2013
• Yeah. Just start off slow.Men in Black: International2019
• Anyway, children, let's start off with some vocabulary.South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut1999
• We're gonna start off with Frank Essex.Cinderella Man2005
• Start falling off.Looper2012

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 Wolf of Wall Street2013
  • Jordan Belfort Introduces Himself
  • Jordan's First Lunch with Mark Hanna
  • Black Monday Crushes Jordan's Career

From the same entry

• don't start
• get started
• you, he, she, started it
• to start with
• alarm bells ring ringing
• get the ball rolling
• get off on the right foot
• start back
• start on
• start on at
• start out

More phrasal verbs

• look through
• run away from
• build up
• walk out
• buckle up
• keep up with
• see to it that
• live on
• finish with
• get across
• keep away
• run out on