turn one off

“I said, ‘Yeah I know how to turn one on and turn one off.’

“You can't turn one off. I will always be black and a woman. ... Black lives matter, trans lives matter, women's lives matter. I'm standing for all of black lives.”

And for another, just about everybody is irked by some type of cellphone thoughtlessness — talking loudly into one on a train; texting while clogging up a crowded sidewalk; failing to turn one off in a theater.

Those are the same kids Nicholas Carr might say wouldn't even realize the implications of such a device, or how hard it becomes to turn one off.

The experience not only revealed the storyteller's true sexual orientation, but showed that even immersion in the hell of the mass poultered won't turn one off the bird.