Good day, I would like to ask if it is right to say "I'm off today." What I mean is that I'm not at work today because it's my day off. Does it have a similar meaning to "It's my day off today.?" Thank you in advance. Help me please...

Understanding the Context

Is is "laid off" or "layed off" from a job? Thanks. Hi, kind people I have a confusion between get off work and take off work. I want to ask my friend when he stops his work at his job for the day.

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So should I ask him like this: "What time do you get off work?" Or should I ask him another way: "What time do you take off work... With regards to "I have Fridays off", I think you're right in the sense that there's definitely an ambiguity: you'd need to follow up with another question in order to ascertain the reason why you have Fridays off; maybe you've asked to take them off, maybe your employer insists you take them off. Turn on the light Turn off the light Switch off the light Switch on the light but what about put on/off the light? Do they exist? What does it mean ?

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I saw them in the LongMan dicitionary but my teacher said we couldn't use "PUT ON/OFF Hello! I live in Toronto, Canada. The 'correct' usage, as I understand it, is 'turn on/off the light'. Like water off a duck's back (Traducción literal: el agua resbala sobre la espalda del pato). Las plumas de los patos están impermeabilizadas por un aceite que segregan sus glándulas exocrinas y, por eso, les resbala el agua en la que nadan y no les moja la piel. Welcome, Philiponfire.

Personally, I might have used "a physical description to go on"; there are other options, of course. For example, you could just delete the whole clause: "with only a physical description." Nonetheless, his phrasing, "only a physical description to go off of" strikes me as idiomatic in AE. It sounds natural, despite its convolutions. A ways off, in the kitchen window of my house, you could see my mom’s outline standing at the sink, one elbow raised up and poked out sideways, her hand holding the outline of the telephone pressed to the side of her hair.