Question
Poe also was drinking off and on during these years.
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Is "drinking off and on" grammatical? What other expressions can we use instead of this expression?
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Is "drinking off and on" grammatical? What other expressions can we use instead of this expression?
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The idiom "off and on" means sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't — in other words, "now and then" or "periodically" or any other expression that indicates that he was drinking, but not 100% of the time.