put off
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
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Put·-off
n.
A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. L'Estrange.
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Delay or postpone, as in He always puts off paying his bills. This idiom, dating from the late 1300s, gave rise to the proverb
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, first recorded in the late 1300s (in Chaucer's
Tale of Melibee) and repeated ever since. Also see put one off.
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put off
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Definition: defer, delay
Antonyms: accomplish, achieve, carry out, do, succeed
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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