Meaning of off one's game | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Playing or competing below one's usual level of performance.
2. Performing in any activity below one's usual level; behaving in an irregular, inept, or awkward manner; feeling unwell.
   broadly, idiomatic

Examples

“One fellow I knew once was off his game the whole first half because some idiot was flying a kite over the field advertising some one's pills.”

“Then the latter, as every golfer does at times, suddenly went right off his game.”

“Big Bertha, the crowd-pleasing sand tiger shark who survived an astonishing four decades at the New York Aquarium, has died. "She was off her game. She slowed down. She wasn't quite right," said Hans Walters, the animal department supervisor.”

“Adam found himself answering the viewer's questions while also trying to cook—which threw him off his game.”

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