Of or Off

josephperin

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Stupid question -

The thugs probably thought they had enough time to strip him OF anything valuable once he was dead.

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The thugs probably thought they had enough time to strip him OFF anything valuable once he was dead.


Grammarly is not catching any error either way. I've stared at the sentence so long the words are getting blurry.
 

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If he's going to be off, then he would have had to be on the valuables. So unless the loot was under him, it's "of".
 

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If he's going to be off, then he would have had to be on the valuables. So unless the loot was under him, it's "of".

Well, there's also the variant where a thug with a taste for haut couture might "strip off him anything valuable". Note the word order though. Let's also hope the ground wasn't too muddy, and he wasn't bleeding too much. Those delicate fabrics are so easy to ruin.
 

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"strip sb. of sth.", that's what I was taught.