put off | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)Topostpone, especially throughprocrastination.Don'tput offyour homework to the last minute.Don'tputyour homeworkoffto the last minute.Don'tputitoffto the last minute.Don'tputitoff.; (transitive)Todelay(a task, event, etc.).The stormput offthe game by a week.The stormputthe gameoffby a week.I'm too busy to see Mr Smith today. I'll have toputhimoff.; (transitive)To distract; to disturb the concentration of.Please be quiet. I'm trying to concentrate and you'reputtingmeoff.; (transitive)To cause to dislike; todiscourage(from doing).Almost drowningputhimoffswimming.; (transitive)Toemit; togive off(an odor, smoke, etc.).This type of firewoodputs offa strong smell.; (transitive,archaic)Totake off(something worn).toput offa mask1911, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume11, page207:The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance toputitoffand scramble back into your human integument.

Examples:

EN: I put off everything and rushed right up here.
ES: Y supongo que es lo que me ha traído aquí.
EN: I cannot put off any longer the serious news I have to report.
ES: Señores, a pesar de la gravedad de la noticia que tengo que darles, les pido que no la divulguen.
EN: This is a secret, but I've been threatened by this Arsene Lupin... and Charmerace insists on coming down to protect me. So my little excursion will have to be put off.
ES: Es un secreto, pero he sido amenazado por Arsene Lupin, y Charmerace insiste en venir conmigo para protegerme, así que la pequeña excursión tendrá que suspenderse.
EN: Do you think it's pleasant for a young girl, to be always put off.
ES: ¿Crees que es agradable para una chica joven que siempre te estén dando largas?
EN: I won't accept that you put off honest people, so that you can walk about with that Wolf.
ES: No te tolero que me espantes a gente honrada para salir con ese Wolf.
EN: No, I put off everything else.
ES: No, he aplazado lo demás.
EN: I've had to put off the pleasure of meeting you much longer than I wished.
ES: He tenido que aplazar el placer de conocerlo demasiado tiempo.
EN: Darling, you won't let him persuade you to put off our trip, will you?
ES: Mi vida, no dejarás que te persuada de cancelar nuestro viaje, ¿verdad?
EN: - We will have to put off the show!
ES: - ¡Tendremos que cancelar el show!
EN: I'd like them put off at Bell's Landing.
ES: Los quiero desembarcados en Bell's Landing. ¿Bell's Landing?
EN: I will not sing unless they are put off there.
ES: No voy a cantar a menos que los saquen de ahí.
EN: You see, we decided to put off being millionaires till the next trip.
ES: Hemos decidido ser millonarios en el próximo viaje. Entonces sí ahorraremos.
EN: - I put off in the past.
ES: - Lo pospuse en el pasado.
EN: They're just getting ready to put off the lights, that's all.
ES: La señal para apagar las luces.
EN: After a day here, you'd be put off dying.
ES: Luego de un día aquí, no deseará morir.

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