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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Better off

"Better off alone
or
Better off without you "

I know they both mean the same thing ( better without you or better alone) but in the 2nd one "better OFF WITHOUT you" seems like there are 2 negative words that turn out to be positive .
wouldn't it be better like "better without you or better off you" ?
  

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Elida "better OFF WITHOUT you" seems like there are 2 negative words that turn out to be positive No, "(be) better off" is an idiom, and it should be treated as a single unit. e. you will lose the idiomatic meaning).

— Yankee

  • Elida "better OFF WITHOUT you" seems like there are 2 negative words that turn out to be positive No, "(be) better off" is an idiom, and it should be treated as a single unit.
  • e.
  • you will lose the idiomatic meaning).
  • Saying "better off without you" does not amount to a double negative.
  • The opposite of that expression would be "better off with you".
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Elida"better OFF WITHOUT you" seems like there are 2 negative words that turn out to be positive
No, "(be) better off" is an idiom, and it should be treated as a single unit. If you remove the word "off", you will simply change the meaning (i.e. you will lose the idiomatic meaning).

Saying "better off without you"
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" better off" is an idiom meaning happier and wealthier.
We would like our children to be better off than we are. We are better off than our parents. I am better off since I moved.
"without you" is a prepositional phrase.
So, you are combining two different phrases: "I am better off" and "without you." "Better off you" does not make any sense.
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