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be off with you

be off with you phrase: go away; get out.

Phrase

be off with you

  1. (dated) Go away; get out.
    • "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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 208

Questions about be off with you

What does be off with you mean?
Be off with you means go away; get out.
What part of speech is be off with you?
Be off with you is a phrase.

Words near be off with you in the dictionary

  1. be my guest
  2. be no exception
  3. be no match for
  4. be no stranger to
  5. be not to know
  6. be off with you
  7. be on
  8. be on at
  9. be on days
  10. be on nights
  11. be on one

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