be off with you

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be off with you

  1. (dated) Go away; get out.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 208:
      "Why, you are surely thinking it is the parson who stands here before you; but so help me, if you don't think wrong, for I am the clerk." "Be off with you, - go home, and you be the parson and let him be clerk," said the king, and so it was.

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