be off form
be in bad form

He can't figure out why he's off form and it really kills him.

The player who is off form is going to be picked on by his rivals.

Then, a fair number of prominent singers are off form or don't have much to say about "Faust."

I was off form in 1935 and the main reason was because I did no skating last winter.

The guy made two finals, a semi-final, and won a slam last year and people were saying he's off form.

He finished two seconds behind Zabriskie, sending a clear message to anyone who thought he might be off form this year.

He will take the place of Kyle Clifton, the team's former leading tackler, who has been off form.

She was off form in 2009 and registered a season's best of 5872 points at the Meeting International d'Arles.

In the Leningrad Championship of 1949, he was off form with 8 /18 to tie for 11th-13th places.

Ah, but Mrs. Warhoon was off form tonight!

The Swede was off form from the start, shanking groundstrokes, missing volleys and hitting his second serve without consistent depth or force.

Jackson has been off form all season and finished second to Schwarzhoff in the 110 hurdles at Nice, France, on Wednesday.

Mr. Tsiskaridze, usually an exciting dancer, was off form in his ballroom solo and depicted a rather languid prince.

But in the Olympic 400 m final, Jones was off form, and managed to finish only in a disappointing fifth place, 1.50 seconds behind teammate Charles Jenkins.

Can't keep things simple, people always have to have a lot of internecine squabbles; one little thing they don't agree with and they're off forming a collective of their own.

Some observers attributed his being off form to bad nerves, but those who know him better will insist that he produces his best when keyed up as tight as a violin string.

He had no qualms about dropping players he thought were off form, but would talk to them individually to encourage them, or if he wanted to make a point arising from their game.

Brian McClair and Mark Hughes were off form, and summer signing Dion Dublin had broken his leg early in the season, ruling him out of action for six months.

Mr. Collins, playing an innocent new to love, found his usual mix of verve and classical form only after being off form in his ballroom solo, which was too soft in its attack.

At Italy Ferrari's home race, the weekend was wet throughout, and Massa was off form, qualifying only sixth, but he had a great chance to take the championship lead as Hamilton was down in 15th.

In June 1888, Lord Harris played twice for Blackheath with Druitt and Stanley Christopherson; Blackheath won both matches easily, but Druitt was off form and contributed neither runs nor wickets in either match.

The PGA Tour player of the year in 1993 and 1994 and the winner of three major championships (the 1994 British Open and the 1992 and 1994 P.G.A. Championships), Price has been off form this year.

The Northeast also has a strong girls contingent, led by the regional winner Jillian Mastroianni, a junior at Sayville High on Long Island, and the defending national champion Erin Sullivan of Mount Mansfield, Vt., who was off form at the regional and placed sixth.

I had not given my mind to it, and was off form myself; the chorus was a scratch one; Menekrates, though I think he saved his reason by purging his grief through this tale of old disasters, gave a poor performance, as actors do when playing from raw emotion instead of considered art.