The meaning of "OFF THE MENU"?
Hi.
I'm a Japanese comic fan and was reading new "KICK-***" #2.
There was a phrase I couldn't understand.
What does "OFF THE MENU" mean?
The context is as below:
The hero in this comic called "Kick-***" is robbing the bad guys and trying to knock out them, and she thinks,
"It's hard to knock someone out. The best you can hope for is stunning them for a second. Anything more risks brain damage, or worse, and that's strictly OFF THE MENU."
I guess it means "not an option", is it right?
Please advise.
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Yes, it means "not an option." It's implying that hitting someone so hard that you risk killing them is totally unacceptable. Even hitting someone hard enough that you risk causing brain damage is something the character avoids, which is why stunning them temporarily is the best that you can hope for. So hitting someone even harder, thus causing something worse than brain damage, which we can assume is death, shouldn't even be considered, and to make sure it isn't, let's just get rid of it as an option, like blotting out an item on a menu so that nobody chooses it or even knows it was ever a choice.
It means not an option.
Yes, that is what it means in this context.
In other contexts, this English phrase could mean "requiring special service or circumstances."
Yes