off the hook
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8.2
- idiom
- Slang
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increíble
- This party is off the hook.
Examples
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This club is off the hook.
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The food at that restaurant was off the hook; I've never tasted anything so delicious!
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But the storage, the storage is where things get really off the hook, as I believe the kids say.
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Yo, that party was off the hook, kid.
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This place is off the hook!
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Girl, you are too much... this is off the hook amazing!
Blog text (6) -
That party looks off the hook.
Blog text (18) -
Miami is off the hook!
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That's off the hook!
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It was off the hook, and now it's time to go get some fluids back in my system for the after party, and get my dance on!
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
The slang sense 'extremely good, exciting, or impressive' is not derivable from the literal meanings of 'off' (away from) and 'hook' (a curved implement); the phrase does not transparently compose to mean praise. This use is idiomatic/slang (distinct from the more transparent 'off the hook' = 'not in trouble') and is unpredictable to a B1 learner who has not previously encountered the expression.
Etymology
Off the hook as slang for 'extremely good' is one popular story that comes from a phone left off the hook at a loud, wild party so no one could answer. The wild party image helped the phrase come to mean 'amazing' or 'very exciting'.