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Idioms and Phrases

Begin flight, as in The spacecraft was due to lift off at ten o'clock . The off in this idiom means “off the ground.” [Late 1800s]
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Example Sentences

She described lift-off as “a combination of excitement and fear,” and an “awesome experience.”

I had never heard of its existence until a few hours before lift-off from Lunar Base.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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