be off with you

English

Phrase

be off with you

(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

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)

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