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

Tut," says nurse, giving him a scornful poke with her first finger, though she is tremendously flattered; "be off with you; you are worse than ever.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

“There, be off with you; there’s half a crown for you,” said Tom.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

"Get up and be off with you, you lazy tramp," he said, when I rubbed my eyes and blinked at him.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

Now none of your nonsense and impudence and sneering, young man, and be off with you, or I’ll see somebody that’ll have something to say to you.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair