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dry off

become dry or make yourself dry

To dry off means to become dry or to remove water from your body or something.

B1 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

Are you coming back outside?

In a minute. I just need to dry off.

Play the conversation

Dry off before you sit on the sofa.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I dried me off after swimming.

Say: I dried myself off after swimming.

When you dry your own body, use the reflexive pronoun “myself,” not “me.”

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

dry off; dry yourself off; dry something off

Your turn: say it out loud

Dry off before you sit on the sofa.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

dry off

become dry or make yourself dry

“Dry off before you sit on the sofa.”

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