be off with you

English

Phrase

be off with you

1. (dated) Go away; get out.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 208:

     "Why, you are surely thinking it is the parson who stands here before you; but so help me, if you don't think wrong, for I am the clerk." "Be off with you, - go home, and you be the parson and let him be clerk," said the king, and so it was.

Related terms

• forget you
• on with you

Translations

go away; get out

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 走開／走开 (zh) (zǒukāi), 滾開／滚开 (zh) (gǔnkāi)

• Finnish: mene pois
• French: va-t’en (fr), allez-vous-en (fr)
• German: Hebe dich hinfort
• Polish: idź precz
• Portuguese: vai/vá embora
• Russian: убира́йся вон (ubirájsja von), пошёл вон (pošól von)
• Spanish: esfumarse (es), largarse (es) (colloquial)