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
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Very well, if your comrade is dearer to you than your own mother, be off with you.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
There, be off with you, and you dine with us on Tuesday next.
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
"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.
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