vote off the island
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At places like Razorfish, the burden of deciding who to vote off the island had brought emotional injury to the middle managers who had been asked to make employee assessments."
- ""Look, I'm thorry." I winced. "Sorry. I'm an idiot, okay? A total jerk. I deserve to be voted off the island. […]"
- "I mean, it [rowing] wasn't a varsity sport at most colleges anymore and hadn't been for years. If I got to college and couldn't sustain my studies and crew, there could be only one choice of which I'd vote off the island. I could always pick crew back up after I graduated."
Etymology
Coined with reference to reality game show Survivor, in which contestants must survive after being deliberately stranded in a remote location (such as a tropical island), with one being eliminated from the competition each week by a vote.
Usage
Inflected Forms
votes off the island (present, singular)
voting off the island (participle, present)
voted off the island (participle, past)
voted off the island (past)