WordNet
off year
n. a year in which productivity is low or inferior
a year in which no major political elections are held
Usage examples of "off year".
But as I look back, it seems clear to me that I learned the most essential things not from my school teachers, nor even from my university professors, but from my parents, who knew nothing at all about science, in that single far-off year of 1939.
Peach-trees abounded (though this was an off year for fruit), and apples and grapes throve.