off duty
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Not engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation.
- The policeman was off duty but had his gun.
- I won't be going off duty until about six.
- 1944, Philip MacDonald, Action in Arabia, spoken by Matthew Reed (Robert Armstrong):
- Officially I think you're crazy. Unofficially I'm off duty.