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

"Go and get something to put in it then first," replied the ferry-man; "and be off with you now!"

From Polish Fairy Tales by Glinski, A. J.

Very well, if your comrade is dearer to you than your own mother, be off with you.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Then be off with you round by the stables.

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

There, there," I said, "be off with you, both of you.

From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger