be off with you
Leave right now
Be off with you is a somewhat old-fashioned command telling someone to leave immediately.
It carries a dismissive, impatient tone—the speaker wants the person gone and isn't being polite about it.
Be off with you, I have work to do.
The phrase appears frequently in historical fiction and fairy tales, often spoken by authority figures shooing away children or servants.
- get outDepart or escape
- go awayCommand to leave
- leaveSanctioned time away
- beat itCommand to leave quickly
- take a hikeDismissive command to leave
off you go · move along · run along · shoo · rejection · annoyed · begone · dismissal · brusque · hit the road · hurry up · curt · exasperated · impatient · scram · skedaddle · clear out · abruptness
be off with youwelcome
Hospitable greeting offered
come in · make yourself at home · stay · enter · come on in
be off with youlinger
Stay beyond necessity
remain · stick around · tarry · abide · hang around