OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 54040

score off

Meanings (ES + gloss)
aplastar • dominar • humillar • joder • mortificar • poder más que • señorear
To defeat (especially in an argument), get the better of, achieve a success over, gain an advantage or win points over, make a point to the detriment or at the expense of, make appear foolish. Sometimes with particle on (someone).
The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.
Whether it was politics, trade, competition in industry, snobbery, boasting, self-advertisement, or gossip, the object was to score off one's adversary and put him down.
borrar • botar • cancelar • echar fuera • mandar a la mierda • mandar al carajo • rayar • tachar
To delete or remove (especially from a list); to score out, strike out or strike off, cross out or cross off; to draw a line through.
You can score my name off, I quit.
You can score off my name, I quit.
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