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

Bring the wine, woman; and if you don't wish to wait for the bonfire, be off with you up the glen.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

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

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)

"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