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But on the discomfort scale, 10 watching the Vice President go-off script on a Sunday talk show, 5 having an informal bite with Hillary, and 1 getting a foot massage on Air Force One as we fly into the sunset, I'd give it a 7 -- the rough equivalent of catching Sarkozy eyeballing the passing caboose of a girl too young even for Berlusconi.

Sparack: Bruno: Don't Ask (A Reluctant, Though 75% Positive, Review)

It would be a great thing for us if any undertaking of this kind could live long enough to get affections and associations connected with it, whose steady glow should take the place of, and more than supply, the shine of novelty, and the dazzle of a first go-off.

The Future of the American Idea

Bloom and hard to follow at the first go-off but the music of

Ulysses

Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street.

Ulysses

He'll rush you at the go-off, but don't get rattled.

THE MEXICAN

"You can strike my name from the ballot at the go-off," stated Percy, promptly.

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

As at Madeira, the ship's company were allowed leave to go on shore, watch and watch in turn: so, belonging as we both did to the starboard division, Mick and I were amongst those who had the first go-off.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy

You must be careful whom you tell the story to, old chap; for at the first go-off it sounds as if it was not merely eating too much that was the matter.

Cecilia de Noël

Such would probably be his first go-off; and the next impulse would be to run, shout, cry fire! or murder!

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1

The first action gave the blow with more direct force than the second, which had the notch upon what is called the underhammer, but was defective in the absence of any means to regulate the distance of the "go-off," or

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883