After 5 days studying the script, Jane is now off book, and can concentrate on gesture more.
"He will glibly parse a sentence ... and repeat the catechism and whole chapters of the Bible 'off book.'"1873, Thomas Wright, Our New Masters, Strahan & Co., page 125:
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"In all likelihood, the director will leave you alone throughout the rest of the production and focus attention on the guy who isn't off book yet."1993, Doug Moston, Coming to Terms with Acting, →ISBN, page 74:
"'So if Antigone wants to be off book, I think the rest of you should be off book too.'"2003, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Picador,, →ISBN, page 332:
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of off book value (“below book value”).
"in the winter of 1957-58 prices were 60 percent off book."1963, Richard Austin Smith, Corporations in Crisis, Doubleday, page 74:
An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon: