Usage of "off-and-on"

Intermittently stopping and starting.

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Ús de off-and-on en anglès

On Tuesday they recover family pictures and mementos, all soaked by off-and-on rain. 
 Reuters 

I worked off-and-on for Calvin Carriker all the years we lived at Royston. 
 The Life of Me: An Autobiography 

I wasn't prepared to hear that my off-and-on girlfriend was pregnant. 
 Ebony 

AMC and Wanda had held off-and-on discussions about a possible deal more than a year ago. 
 Reuters 

Most people were more off-and-on, like Bud Dearborn. 
 Living dead in dallas 

Kyra's been off-and-on pissed at me ever since. 
 Bag of Bones 

I'd dusted Bill's big love (and his mom); now I'd killed Alcide's off-and-on-again sweetie. 
 Dead to the world 

Even then, it was an off-and-on affair. 
 The Guardian 

Distracted by off-and-on financial emergencies, the airline has not as yet come up with a sustainable industrial plan. 
 Reuters 

His father had had several off-and-on relationships, but never anything permanent enough to have an effect on him. 
 Lola Carlyle Reveals All 

Until now, she's struggled on her own (she's been homeless off-and-on in DC since April 2010). 
 Wired 

It's a conversation between Talbert and Kingsbury, who together have nearly 20 years of off-and-on online dating experience. 
 Ebony 

'Last year this fellow Balkus came to me, kind of an off-and-on friend. 
 Empire in black and gold 

Significats de off-and-on en anglès