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Wont Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

To be off the grid

I've seen this idiom in a dialogue on a movie. What does "to be off the grid" mean?

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Hi wont, If you are "off the grid" you are not connected to the electrical system. You live on your own, possibly without being connected to society at all -- although it could simply mean that you generate your own power and otherwise interact with society. If the show was a crime show, it could also have been used to mean that the person has no identity - no credit cards, no driver's license and therefore is impossible to track.

— BarbaraPA

  • Hi wont, If you are "off the grid" you are not connected to the electrical system.
  • You live on your own, possibly without being connected to society at all -- although it could simply mean that you generate your own power and otherwise interact with society.
  • If the show was a crime show, it could also have been used to mean that the person has no identity - no credit cards, no driver's license and therefore is impossible to track.
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Hi wont,

If you are "off the grid" you are not connected to the electrical system. You live on your own, possibly without being connected to society at all -- although it could simply mean that you generate your own power and otherwise interact with society.

If the show was a crime show, it could also have been used to mean that the person has no identity - no credit cards, no
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