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)

1. (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

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• off and on, off-and-on