It means that something's just not right. Off balance. It's not all there.
> She suddenly started laughing for no reason. She's a bit off kilter..

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Girl in Midstream A girl stood before him in 1) midstream , alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her lon

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49 teachers words teaching certificate methodology course class student teachers assistant lesson plan correct discipline prepare syllabus assignment coursework teach mentor encourage motivate strict rule patient experienced teaching practicum observ

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My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to

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Grammar Girl here. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will be your hostess with the mostest today, because were looking at how to make comparisons using adjectives and adverbs. Bonnie writes, When you want to modify a noun, is it OK to stick a more or a most

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图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is like versus as. Now the very attentive listeners will notice a difference between that ad and what I said last week, and that difference is the reason today's topic is like versus as. This week, I said, I just ente

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Grammar Girl here. About a month ago I answered a bunch of short listener questions, and I promised I'd answer a few more short ones soon. Well, today's the day! Use to Versus Used to Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Barrett in Nantucket on Nantucket Island

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sit versus set. When I did a show about lay versus lie many months ago, listeners wrote in asking me to do a follow up show on sit versus set because the problem with sit and set is similar to the problem with lay

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is whether--not rain or sunshine, but whether w-h-e-t-h-e-r, as in whether you like it or not, it's the topic. [Listener question about if versus whether and whether you need an or not after whether] Well, it's been a

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Kanade: Hi, Todd. Todd: How are you doing? Kanade: Good, how are you? Todd: Pretty good. Kanade, you talk about your little sister a lot. Kanade: Yes, I like her. Her name is Asuka. She's a university student now. She's two years younger than I and w

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England 英格兰 Although England is a country rich in folklore and traditions, it has no definitive national costume. The most well-known folk costumes are those of the Morris dancers. They can be seen in many country villages during the summer mon

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当红翻唱女Esmee Denters首张单曲 Outta Here Get me outta here 'Cuz my eyes are burning from these silly tears That you brought when you show me you dont really care And you never loved me, Someone get me outta this place 1 2 3 4 (Right now)

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Two trampers died in the Tararua Forest Park during a snow storm at the weekend. They were 61 year old Dr Seddon Bennington, and 54 year old Marcella Jackson. Dr Bennington had been the CEO of Te Papa, the National Museum, for six years. Mrs Jackson

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For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence theres still way more that we dont know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think were more enlightened than ever but in many ways were still failing miserably

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Simon and Marie hadn't been to a movie theater in years. He didn't like theaters because of certain people. Certain people like to talk during a movie. Certain people like to kick the seats in front of them. Certain people like to eat loudly. Certain

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18-hydroxydehydrogenase
addressable horizontal positions
advance money on security
alkylidenes
asymmetric fabry-perot optical modulator
at tubayq
axis of stress
Azeptin
basket wave coil
Beeringgnurding, Mt.
Bekal
birthday
block out something
cap product
circular hd. (the nut)
closed-cell foam
convulsively
copia element
core and winding assembly
customs re entry permit
Darende
deionisations
diaoyu
discomyza maculipennis
document key
documento
dormant season
economic hierarchy scheme
enthalpy of absorption
epipteric
fenocchi
fuzzy expert system
gyppy
hook phototransiustor
hosed
host timed out
idiom recognition
insterburg (chernyakhovsk)
interception
intestine nerve fiber
isocytolysin
isopropylphenylbiphenyloxadiazole
keep careful watch on
language arts
laser flash photolysis
megatomostethus maculatus
merrik
metacarpal artery
nautical meteorology
nekomimis
nephrocyte
nipple shield
pagne
pay in advance
Pilley's I.
pipeline pump
plagiarized
platelet function regulator
Poisson's integral
polylithic
porcelaneous chert
pseudomalletia taliensis
purpura angioneurotica
radioisotope diagnostic equipment
Ramsbottom coke test
random reducibility
rational act
re-generation
red-tag
reduced suspension
relative band width
residual regression method
rhamnosterin
rhizophydium collapsum
Rosellinia sorbaria
sample purity
search memory
sediment space
shitbreaths
short beer
shunt regulation
so-called ex-officio oath
sodium acid pyrophosphate
solar radiation pressure
spike filter
standard ratios
subtutors
sundancer
Tanen Taunggyi (Thanon Thong Chai)
the cockles of the heart
thirsty
thrast
Torilis
two-stroke single-acting
unbloomed
uncertainty relation
unhandy ship
vitaceous
voice-band
W Ursac Majoris star
What are these
William, Prince