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off the air
Not being broadcast, as in Once they knew they were off the air, the panelists burst out laughing. This idiom, along with the antonym on the air (“being broadcast”), dates from the 1920s, air being considered a medium for radio-wave transmission.
Example Sentences
Tapper became irate and rushed her off the air after she mentioned Biden's "cognitive decline."
Martindale left “Tic-Tac-Dough” in 1985, a year before it went off the air, to host a show that he had created.
Dennis Prager, the conservative talk radio host who has been off the air since suffering a debilitating fall in November, will return in June.
Following the investigation, much of Hollywood cut ties with the HFPA, ultimately leading NBC to pull the show off the air in 2022, and the organization undertook widespread reforms.
Of course, the one hiccup in this is that there have been multiple seasons of canonical comics since the show went off the air in 2003.
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