something off

Halfway through, he ran to the piano and tapped out a “somber and slow” waltz idea, and on top of it a dark, coiling melody — with “something off but also maybe something romantic in it.”

“The cracks started opening up. I’m no groundsman, but I don’t think you can make cracks go back together that easily, certainly in three days. You’d expect it to do something off the cracks and with it being dry and hot again, you’d expect the spinners to play more of a part.”

People on Trump’s team seemed to be aware that there was something off about the scheme, according to the memo.

I mean, I've said this a few times, but one parallel that I see amongst a lot of kind of autocratic or authoritarian-leaning figures is that when they first arrive on the scene, there's something off about them.

They tapped and lightly smacked one other as they lined up side by side, tangling and untangling like interlocking puzzles, yet there was something off about their flow as their movement right from the start seemed premeditated.