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be off with you
interjection as in scat
Example Sentences
“You listen to what your mother tells you, young feller. Get back here with the stuff on that list as soon as possible. Be off with you now.”
“That’s a very good wheeze, my dear Sponge. But let’s make him finish chopping up the wood first. Be off with you at once, you hideous brat, and do some work!”
"Be off with you, you silly things," said Tristran, his face burning, and, having nothing else to hand, he threw his bowler hat at them.
"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."
"I got you here, safely and soundly, and in the same condition I found you. I gave you board and I gave you lodging—and if neither of them were to your liking or expectation, well, what is it to me? Now, be off with you, before I change you into a wiggling worm and bite off your head, if it is not your tail. Go! Shoo! Shoo!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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