Wheel off
Consider the following sentence:
"I received a note from Table 8 begging for the chocolate WHEELS OFF the dessert cart."
What does 'wheel off' mean?
Top answer
It's not "wheels off". It is an informal and rather peculiar but nonetheless natural use of "off" to mean "from". Table 8 wanted the chocolate wheels (a type of confection, I guess).
- It's not "wheels off".
- It is an informal and rather peculiar but nonetheless natural use of "off" to mean "from".
- Table 8 wanted the chocolate wheels (a type of confection, I guess).
- They were on the dessert cart.
- They wanted the ones off the dessert cart.
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It's not "wheels off". It is an informal and rather peculiar but nonetheless natural use of "off" to mean "from". Table 8 wanted the chocolate wheels (a type of confection, I guess). They were on the dessert cart. They wanted the ones off the dessert cart.
0"wheels off" is not a phrase in that sentence. The phrasing is "begging for the chocolate wheels / off the dessert cart". As far as I can gather, "chocolate wheels" here are a kind of confectionary or dessert. "off" means "from".
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