off the grid | Idiomator

Meaning: (of a home, business, or the occupants thereof)Not usingelectricityfrom thepublicelectrical supply system.2005March 18, Bethany Lyttle, “Energy-Efficient Houses: Lowering the Long-Term Cost”, inNew York Times, retrieved6 December 2011:[T]his 1,250-square-foot earth-covered house relies on solar power and isoff the grid.; Not connected to a publicly availablecommunicationsystem, such as theWorld Wide Webor amobile telephonenetwork.2009, J. Gale Morrison,We Were the Zonks!,→ISBN,page263:He has no desire to be found. His place wasoff the grid. The cabin had no television, phone, or computer.; (idiomatic)Isolated; in a remote location; inseclusion; not participating in someofficialprocess or system.2008May 4, Julia Chaplin, “Riding the Waves of Peru”, inNew York Times, retrieved6 December 2011:The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland. . . . He had promised me a crowd-free break that wasoff the grid, and here it was.2011, James Knapp,Element Zero‎[1], Penguin,→ISBN:They wereoff the grid—no IDs, no homes, no names, nothing.

Examples:

EN: Yeah, moving off the grid to the north.
ES: - Salen de la cuadrícula hacia el Norte.
EN: What would happen if we beamed a holodeck object off the grid? Nothing.
ES: ¿Qué sucedería si transportáramos un objeto holográfico fuera de ella?
EN: We have learned that if we uncouple the Heisenberg compensators and allow them to re-scramble randomly, then we can beam a holodeck object, or a person, off the grid with all the cohesion of conventional matter.
ES: Hemos descubierto que desconectando los compensadores Heisenberg y dejando que se conecten al azar, podemos transportar fuera un objeto holográfico, o a una persona, con la cohesión de la materia convencional.
EN: Somebody who knew how to take it off the grid without affecting surrounding facilities.
ES: Alguien que sabía desconectarla sin afectar al resto de las instalaciones.
EN: It ain't much, but I'm off the grid, man.
ES: No es mucho, pero me desconecta del mundo.
EN: Oh... I've been off the grid now about 3 years. Dig in there...
ES: Eh... pues llevo tres años desconectado.
EN: They've gone off the grid!
ES: Se han salido de la red!
EN: Turning off the grid is out of the question.
ES: Apagar la red está fuera de discusión.
EN: - Independence is off the grid.
ES: Está fuera de la cuadricula.
EN: So I live off the grid.
ES: Así que vivo desconectado.
EN: I fell off the grid. I was halfway around the world.
ES: Desaparecí del programa, estaba al otro lado del mundo.
EN: He lives off the grid.
ES: Él vive fuera del radar.
EN: He went off the grid three days ago.
ES: Salió de la red hace 3 dias.
EN: Let me introduce a few of my off the grid neighbors.
ES: Dejenme presentarles a algunos de mi red de vecinos.
EN: Nope, but Cramer and his group lived totally off the grid.
ES: No, pero Cramer y su grupo vivían aislados de la sociedad.

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