What is "offing"

Usage examples of "offing".

With mammoth government contracts in the offing, Weinberg had no trouble converting the Business Advisory Council of leading businessmen into an agency for helping governmental leaders plan the policies for war and for the post-war period.

Mervyn and Blore, having assisted with the luggage, were in the offing.

This incrimination by association was to be a standard tool of opposition groups exploiting the public need for villains on whom whatever disaster was in the offing could be blamed.

For a procreator to want to speak with them directly, something big had to be in the offing.

They followed the high school jocks, because they saw a flash of weaponry, amid the monstrous coalition of state troopers, families, girded in three lanes bumper-to bumper like it was the screwing SEC title in the offing.

There were British raids along the coast of Connecticut that summer, shortly before Adams returned, and apprehension along coastal Massachusetts that a major British strike there might be in the offing.

A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours.

Of the overwhelming convulsion soon to come in France, of the violent end in the offing for the whole European world Adams had come to know, he appears to have had few if any premonitions, no more than anyone else.

An English yacht, the Deerhound, kept an offing of about a mile, ready to rescue survivors from a watery grave.

There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.

Kheldour nor Gwynedd would be the better for a split, with the threat of an eventual Festillic reinvasion ever in the offing.

Possibly de Roget had been banished from court in disgrace, but Arkell assumed there were more Sabreurs in the offing.

The courtroom was not as packed with spectators as it had been for the trial of Frankie Silver, for no momentous crimes were set to be tried and no sensational testimony was in the offing, but since no court day goes unmarked by the curious and the scandalmongers, there was no shortage of spectators for the proceedings.

But is there anything in the offing for you, or have you been unforgivably insolent while standing at the end of a plank, so to speak?

When they took away his toy merchant and ransacked the shop, he suspected that hard times were in the offing for gnomelike drummers like himself.