off/out of

[navi tasan]

Are these sentences correct:

1-I sell the fruits off the tree.
2-I sell the fruits right off the tree.
(1&2 meaning I picked it off the tree and ate it then and there)

3-I sell the Brussels sprouts off the stalk.
(meaning they have been pulled off the stalk, not necessarily right now)

4-I read the book off the press.

[Bennevis]

1-I sell fruit off the tree.
2-I sell fruit right off the tree.

I sell Brussels sprouts off the stalk.

[BobK]

- and 'off the press' is different. You don't read it off anything. You take it straight from the press - while the paper's still hot and the the ink is still wet, and read it - probably standing by the machine (in the original case). In fact 'hot off the press' is a collocation that means 'very recently published'.

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[Barb_D]

Did you notice you used "sell" but referred to "eating"? It created a little confusion for me.

[navi tasan]

Thank you all.

Sorry about the mistake.

So the first three work and the fourth one doesn't, right?

[BobK]

- though because of the collocation 'hot off the press' if you said *I read it off the press you'd probably be understood as meaning 'I read it hot off the press'.

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