AtD translation: off-angle step

[David Morris]

It means pretty much what it says.  I think of it like a dance step, a step
to the side at an angle. It’s not a standard term for anything specific.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:02 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P647.18-23   “Oh? Somebody around here’s a damn thief ?” inquired Hatch in
> what he must have been told was a menacing voice. Frank, who’d been
> watching the men’s feet, took a short off-angle step so as to have speedier
> access to his Police Special.
>
> What is an "off-angle step" exactly?
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