bundling off

Verb

bundle off (third-person singular simple present bundles off, present participle bundling off, simple past and past participle bundled off)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To send someone away quickly and without fussing.
   • Her mother came back in and pulled her out into the hallway as if she were bundling her off on a date and whispered urgently to her.2006, Elliot Mabeuse, A Game of Dress-up
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To go somewhere unceremoniously.
   • The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a chance to stretch our cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks.1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle/Part 4/Chapter 5