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Terms for subject Sports containing get off | all forms | exact matches only | in specified order only
| English | Russian |
| get off | стартовать |
| get off the schneid | прервать неудачную серию ("to break a scoreless streak" (a series of consecutive losses). Schneid possibly comes from the German/Yiddish schneider, which means "one who cuts cloth" (i.e., a tailor). VLZ_58) |
| get off to a flyer | хорошо начать (Now, this week's English for football is the expression off to a flyer. Now we usually use this with the verb ‘get'. So, get off to a flyer. And it simply means that a team has started a match or the season very well indeed at a very early stage. So, for example this year in the Premier League Manchester City, Everton, and Chelsea have won both of their first two games, so we can say they've got off to a flyer. aldrignedigen) |