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

Ha!" cried the old man, "be off with you, young ones.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"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.

"Go and get something to put in it then first," replied the ferry-man; "and be off with you now!"

From Polish Fairy Tales by Glinski, A. J.

"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