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

"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)

Why, the other day I felt as if I could open all the pens and say to the birds, ‘There, be off with you, for you’re no good.’

From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by Boucher, W.

"Be off with you!" he thundered; "be off with you at once!"

From The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. by Spielhagen, Friedrich

But don't imagine that I'm going to have you here—not a bit of it; be off with you, my fine fellow!'

From The Green Fairy Book by Various