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Meanings of off-the-peg in English
(Especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock.
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Examples for "off-the-rack"
Examples for "off-the-rack"
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No offense, but that cheap off-the-rack suit doesn't help you fit in.
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They were both wearing off-the-rack suits, and neither looked very happy.
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It appeared to have been customised, with the off-the-rack version almost floor length.
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He wore an off-the-rack blue suit that draped nicely over his fit body.
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Nothing vital, nothing that wasn't off-the-rack at any decent sawbones.
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Optus said an off-the-shelf product will be available in the coming months.
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There were no off-the-shelf procedures or lists of war crimes to use.
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Consumer-electronics companies are now trying to step in to offer off-the-shelf gadgets.
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But the rest is from a number of commercial, off-the-shelf software programs.
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There are all kinds of off-the-shelf schemes to help people do this.
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The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
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His fashion empire includes a ready-to-wear collection, accessories, home decor and fragrance.
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He refused to compromise and produce ready-to-wear like so many other couturiers.
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Or did he patronize a ready-to-wear shop that catered especially to primates?
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He quit Patou, and hired himself out as a freelance ready-to-wear designer.
Usage of off-the-peg in English
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Next year she will launch an off-the-peg range at more affordable prices.
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Excuse me while I fall screaming into a gaping off-the-peg CGI ravine.
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She was short, slender, and well-dressed in an off-the-peg but good-quality turquoise skirt suit.
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His strange American film Fear X looked a little too much like off-the-peg David Lynch.
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He bought a small, off-the-peg company, endowed it with the money, and applied for charitable status.
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There is a scattering of recent additions, such as an off-the-peg shed painted with pictures of ice-creams.
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Graham Henry An off-the-peg World Cup winner.
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But whether it offers something richer and more complex than an off-the-peg inflatable attraction remains to be seen.
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Sitting outside his off-the-peg beach house was more like Purgatory, except Purgatory was meant to be heaven's anteroom.
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I'd never, ever get rid of quality clothes, although quality is becoming increasingly difficult to find in off-the-peg clothes.
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Caught between a recession and the threat of climate change, a cash-strapped government is grasping for plausible off-the-peg solutions.
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But McKinley, a huge talent, makes of these off-the-peg inheritances a powerful, original work that beguiles, amuses and unsettles.
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Marian Gale sells a full range of off-the-peg dresses from sizes 6 to 18.
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The lobbyists write it much better than I do." "We are used now to seeing lobbyists provide off-the-peg amendments," says McCarthy.
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Far too many independent American comedies trade in a kind of off-the-peg zany anarchy that long ago congealed into its own desperately overworked genre.
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A simple off-the-peg solution that will amp up your hall storage by 20 sq feet can be purchased in the West Elm January sale.