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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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
"Well, be off with you now, Andy, and take care of what I gave you for the squire."
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel
"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.
"Now, children, be off with you, and whatever you do, don't cry," said the Old King.
From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Arndt, Margaret