be off with you

Example Sentences

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"There's never a thing you could possess that I would take for your passage. Now, if you'll not work for me at the market at Wall, then be off with you."

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Ha!" cried the old man, "be off with you, young ones.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"I canna change a sovereign, I tell ye"—— "Then be off with you, and wait."

From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Cozzens, Frederic S.

So, be off with you at once, and don’t be late.

From The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado by Emerson, Chase

And now delay no longer, but be off with you all.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles