[Vocabulary] off of clouds

[maiabulela]

Dear all,

Does the expression "off of clouds" mean "you are dreaming" or " This won't happen"?

A: We will have burgers at our wedding.
B: off of clouds

***Note that they will REALLY have burgers becuase it was a challenge, and the groom has won it!

Thanks.

 

[bhaisahab]

Dear all,

Does the expression "off of clouds" mean "you are dreaming" or " This won't happen"?

A: We will have burgers at our wedding.
B: off of clouds

***Note that they will REALLY have burgers becuase it was a challenge, and the groom has won it!

Thanks.

I've never heard that expression.

 

[orangeparser]

Hi, I'm not a teacher neither a native English speaker.

Is it possible that the sentence was intended as a pun based on
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs", a film where food falls from the sky like rain?

Dear all,

Does the expression "off of clouds" mean "you are dreaming" or " This won't happen"?

A: We will have burgers at our wedding.
B: off of clouds

***Note that they will REALLY have burgers becuase it was a challenge, and the groom has won it!

Thanks.

 

[vil]

I'm not a teacher.


Hi maiabulela,

IMO you are very close to the truth.

Bouncing off of Clouds we were
Is there a love Lost and Found

Bouncing off the clouds - Tim Amos

get off of my cloud - leave me alone (in piece)

Get off of my cloud - The Rolling Stones

get off of the clouds = come down on the Earth; stop dreaming (my interpretation)

Regards,

V.

 

[BobK]

I've never heard that expression.

Nor have I. except in the Rolling Stones song, which I remember finding impossibly obscure when I first heard it - it seems to mean roughly the same as the Br Eng 'Come off it' or 'Pull the other one' (or, in the parlance of my father-in-law, 'I should cocoa'.) The notion of Mick Jagger singing 'Hey, you, I should cocoa' doesn't seem very likely. ;-)

b