{"id":641,"date":"2008-04-02T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/signed-off\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T16:28:42","slug":"signed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Signed off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I heard that one of my colleagues had been &#8220;signed off&#8221;. As this was the first time I&#8217;d heard this expression in this context I wasn&#8217;t sure what to make of it. Later I discovered that she had been signed off by her doctor due to carpal tunnel syndrome and would be spending a week or two at home resting.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard this expression used in this way before?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard of radio and television stations signing off at the end of the day, though many stations no longer do so as they broadcast 24 hours a day. I&#8217;ve also heard of projects, expenses and budgets being signed off.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other English idioms involved signing <a href=\"http:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/signed+off\">here<\/a>, including sign on, sign up (for), sign over and sign out. I suspect such expressions, and similar ones like get on\/off\/up\/down, etc. might be quite tricky for learners of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I heard that one of my colleagues had been &#8220;signed off&#8221;. As this was the first time I&#8217;d heard this expression in this context I wasn&#8217;t sure what to make of it. Later I discovered that she had been signed off by her doctor due to carpal tunnel syndrome and would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,125,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-idioms","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}