English
Adjective
off book
- context|theatre|_|jargon No longer needing the script to rehearse.
#:After 5 days studying the script, Jane is now off book, and can concentrate on gesture more.
#*1873, Thomas Wright, Our New Masters, Strahan & Co., page 125:
#:"He will glibly parse a sentence ... and repeat the catechism and whole chapters of the Bible 'off book.'"
#*1993, Doug Moston, Coming to Terms with Acting, ISBN 0896761215, page 74:
#:"In all likelihood, the director will leave you alone throughout the rest of the production and focus attention on the guy who isn't off book yet."
#*2003, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Picador, ISBN 0312422156, page 332:
#:"'So if Antigone wants to be off book, I think the rest of you should be off book too.'"
- below the list price
#*1963, Richard Austin Smith, Corporations in Crisis, Doubleday, page 74:
#: "in the winter of 1957-58 prices were 60 percent off book."
Antonyms
on book
See also
off-book
Category:English adjectives
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