See score off on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "score + off",
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{
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"text": "The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.",
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"text": "Whether it was politics, trade, competition in industry, snobbery, boasting, self-advertisement, or gossip, the object was to score off one's adversary and put him down.",
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"text": "Aunt Laura wore an air of overpowering satisfaction. Evidently she had already triumphed, and she smiled so cheerfully at Edwin that he felt convinced that she had scored him off in some way.",
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"sense": "to gain an advantage on somebody",
"word": "получавам предимство"
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"word": "prendre le dessus sur"
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"word": "aplatir"
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"word": "baiser"
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"(transitive, separable, idiomatic) To delete or remove (especially from a list); to score out, strike out or strike off, cross out or cross off; to draw a line through."
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"text": "He will keep the roll and score off the name of any Boy absent twice.",
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"word": "prendre le dessus sur"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "flanquer dehors"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "foutre dehors"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "cancellare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "borrar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "tachar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "rayar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "echar fuera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "botar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "mandar al carajo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "mandar a la mierda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scratch somebody out of a list or a group",
"word": "cancelar"
}
],
"word": "score off"
}
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