Idiom
switch off
Meaning
To lose interest, and start thinking about something else.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I switch off when the meeting gets too long.”
“The lecture was so boring that I started to switch off halfway through the presentation.”
“Despite his initial interest in the complex legal arguments, he found himself beginning to switch off as the lawyer droned on for hours.”
Examples
simple
“I switch off when the meeting gets too long.”
contextual
“The lecture was so boring that I started to switch off halfway through the presentation.”
complex
“Despite his initial interest in the complex legal arguments, he found himself beginning to switch off as the lawyer droned on for hours.”
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