better off

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better off

Meaning

• to shun someone or something away so that it becomes better than before
• to have a better time by making a change of cutting something or someone out
• be in a enhanced situation, particularly in monetary conditions

 Example Sentences

1. The family is better off without this guy who respects nobody and thinks that he is the centre of the universe at all times.
2. He is better off without his wife at such parties.
3. I do not believe that you will be better off without this suitcase. You should take it.
4. The process is better off without this step, which is not only time consuming for the employees but also is the most error prone of them all.
5. I think that he will be better off without the habit of smoking all the time.
6. Who can be better off without having a pizza every now and then?
7. She understood that he was better off without her so she left.
8. He would be better off if he curb his habit of spending everything that you earn at weekends.

Origin

The phrase means literally what it says, the word “off” can be replaced with the word “without”. Off is used here in the same sense as one would use getting off a bus that is, physically getting out of it. The phrase is specifically used to show that someone or thing is being cut out (or off). The literary origin is speculated to be from the medieval American history.

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