on and off

English

Alternative forms

on-and-off (adjectival form), off and on

Pronunciation

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Adverb

on and off (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Intermittently.
With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night.

Translations

intermittently

Chinese:
Mandarin: 断断续续地 (duànduànxùxùdì)
Dutch: af en aan
Finnish: ajoittain (fi), pätkittäin, katkonaisesti (fi)
French: par intermittence
German: ab und zu (de)
Greek: κατά διαλείμματα (el) (katá dialeímmata)
Polish: zrywami
Russian: уры́вками (ru) (urývkami)
Swedish: till och från

Anagrams

off and on, off-and-on

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