put off

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put off

  1. aiheuttaa antipatiaa, tympäännyttää; saada joku lopettamaan jostakusta t. jostakin pitäminen
    Your attitude toward women is obnoxious! You're putting me off!
    His intolerance and racism put me right off him.
    I tried to put him off that woman by telling him certain details about her past...
  2. lykätä, myöhentää, siirtää (etenkin jokin epämiellyttävä mitä ei haluta tehdä), vitkutella
    You cannot put that decision off any longer!
    Don't put it off till tomorrow if you can do it today.
    She tried to put him off as long as she could but finally had to see him.
    We had to put the wedding off.
  3. saada joku lopettamaan jonkin tekeminen, kääntää jonkun pää
    Why would I put him off reading and writing poetry?
    I wish I knew how to put our son off playing video games all the time.
    Once she had made up her mind, nothing would put her off.
  4. saada jnkn ote herpaantumaan, häiritä keskittymistä t. tekemistä
    Don't do that! You'll put him off.
    Joe McEnroe told he was put off by a low-flying aeroplane at Wimbledon.
    put someone off their stride/stroke
    The latecomers put the professor off his stride but he soon resumed his train of thought.
    McEnroe told he was put off his stroke by an aeroplane.
  5. sammuttaa valot t. laite (syn. switch off, put out)
    Put the light off before you leave.
  6. jättää kyydistä, jättää laivasta tiettyyn satamaan
    He was put off at Maarianhamina.
  7. riisua vaate (lopullisesti), luopua univormusta
    She was unwilling to put off her lovely wedding dress.
    A Finnish Gypsy woman cannot put off the traditional dress once she has chosen to wear one.
    The retiring police chief got emotional putting off his uniform.

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