英和和英

動詞

screw off (third-person singular simple present screws off, present participle screwing off, simple past and past participle screwed off)

1. To remove the lid of a jar or other container by unscrewing it.
   • 2004, Cathy Myata, Speaking rules!: Games and activities for creating effective speakers, presenters and storytellers, page 52:

     Hold it in two hands and screw off the lid. Set the lid down. Inside are pickled onions.

2. (idiomatic, colloquial) To fail to do one's work; to goof off.

   When the boss wasn't around on the weekend they would sometimes screw off.

   • 1878, Robert White Stevens, On the stowage of ships and their cargoes: with information regarding freights, charter parties, &c., &c., page 798:

     On account of the high rate of wages at Sydney, stevedores will not "screw off" now so willingly as they did formerly.

3. (idiomatic, colloquial) To leave; to bugger off.

   I finished the work early so I screwed off.

間投詞

screw off

1. (idiomatic, possibly vulgar) An expression of surprise or disbelief.

   "We just won a new car!" "Screw off! You're joking, right?"

使用する際の注意点

As a way of urging someone to leave, it is considered vulgar in many settings but may be only a lighthearted rebuke in others.

参考

• screw-off