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off the air
Idioms and Phrases
Not being broadcast, as in Once they knew they were off the air, the panelists burst out laughing . This idiom, along with the antonym on the air (“being broadcast”), dates from the 1920s, air being considered a medium for radio-wave transmission.Example Sentences
Dennis Prager, the conservative talk radio host who has been off the air since suffering a debilitating fall in November, will return in June.
Following the investigation, much of Hollywood cut ties with the HFPA, ultimately leading NBC to pull the show off the air in 2022, and the organization undertook widespread reforms.
Of course, the one hiccup in this is that there have been multiple seasons of canonical comics since the show went off the air in 2003.
The conceit worked back then because the reality genre as we know it had not yet become a TV constant —“Last Chance for Love” was only two years younger than “The Bachelor” — and could only continue to work if it stayed off the air long enough for people to forget "The Joe Schmo Show" existed.
Separately, radio station KLOS-FM 95.5, which also uses transmission facilities in the Angeles Crest Forest, also went off the air overnight.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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