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to get off
to get off
1. transitive.
a. To remove from a surface or place; (also) to rescue (a stranded or trapped person).
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)] > rescue or reclaim one from a place or state
recover1485
retrieve1568
to get off1577
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on
latcha1225
off-wevec1300
to take offa1400
to get off1577
to lay offa1593
daff1609
off1826
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth ii. i. 7 A crust or parget, so fast cleaueth or is baked to the sides within, that the same with no scouring can be gotten off.
1647 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 154 The Italians to this day have the fashion of pumicing their skin to get off the haire.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 314 This colour will not be got off in fifteen dayes, though they wash their hands several times a day.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Bb3v/3 To get his Coat off, tirer son Justaucorps.
1702 Act 1 Anne Stat. ii. c. 19 [22.] §2 If any Person or Persons..shall..fraudulently cut, tear, or get off any Mark or Stamp from any Piece of Vellum [etc.].
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 42 Two men waiting..by the Shore, for a Portuguese Canoe to get 'em off.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ii. 50 It was such an opperation..to get off some of my clothes, and to get on my night-clothes.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 74/2 They put a strait-waistcoat upon her, but she would contrive to get it off.
1872 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy II. vi. 83 Smearing his coarse hands with spirits, to get off the dirt.
1914 V. Bell Lett. (1993) 158 Clive came to her bedroom and she got off her clothes down to her drawers and skipped about with a great deal of coyness.
1954 J. Slaughter Horsemanship for Young Riders 25 Leaf and grass stains are hard to get off.
2009 I. Jack Country formerly known as Great Brit. (2011) 109 While the women and children were got off in the boats, the troops were held in ranks at attention on deck.
b. Nautical. To refloat (a grounded vessel). Now historical.
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1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. Cv They got her off, being laden with Hides, and Logwood for dying, and presently sent her to Argier.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 35 To get off our Ship from among those Rocks.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/2 The Samuel..ran a-shore..but 'twas thought might be got off.
1774 J. Johnson Let. 18 July in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 149 The Hope..had run ashore on Dungeness Pier. If the weather keeps moderate, I am in hopes she may be got off by unloading.
1840 N. P. Willis Amer. Scenery I. 125 Hudson ran his little craft ashore at Weehawken; but the ground was a soft ooze, and she was got off without damage.
1896 Daily News 5 Dec. 5/7 The pilot-sloop, with half a dozen Exmouth pilots, put off to assist the vessel and get her off.
1904 L. W. Coutlée Digest Cases Supreme Court of Canada 717/1 The master did not give notice of Abandonment nor endeavour to get the vessel off. The purchasers immediately got the vessel off.
1912 Mariner′s Mirror 2 95/2 She..was only got off after 20 guns had been thrown over board.
2006 A. Dalton Baychimo iv. 70 Unable to get her off under engine power alone, he had the crew pump out the aft ballast tanks and run a kedge anchor out forward.
2.
a. intransitive. To succeed in coming or going off, to bring oneself away from a place; spec. to leave one's work or other commitment. to get off from: = to get off —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1595 R. Hasleton Strange & Wonderfull Things sig. C I..crept as fast as I could to get off the pipe to land: where before I could get downe, they shot some of their Muskets after me.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. lvii. 424 If you chance to be so neere the lande, that you can find no meanes to get off from it.
1642 N. Bernard Whole Proc. Siege Drogheda 43 That night by the help of a fresh, and lightening her Ballace, with the change of a fit winde, she got off, and lanced into the Poole.
1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 74. 1180 But she..cannot get off till a High-Spring-tide fetch her.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 146 The crazy condition of the ship..prevented her from getting off to sea.
1799 Scots Mag. Mar. 205/1 She touched ground; but after a short time had the good fortune to get off.
1813 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 446 I am like a Boat getting off from the shoaly Shore—every ten yards I am grounded & detained.
1847 R. Anderson Let. 7 Apr. in Artillery Officer in Mexican War (1911) 121 He is very desirous of getting off, and has gone to the City to ascertain if a vessel will sail today.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 202/3 Every man is anxious to get off to the war.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/1 When they get off at mid-day to eat their ‘piece’, there is talking and laughing among the field workers.
1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vi. 128 It was almost like a log-rolling or a barbecue... The men didn't get off from work every day like this.
1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School x. 88 You git off home to your poor wife!
2005 J. McGahern Memoir 19 ‘Daddy wrote that he'd love to be here but wasn't able to get off,’ our mother said.
b. intransitive. To start on a journey; to begin a race.to get off on the right foot, to get off on the wrong foot: see foot n. and int. Phrases 3.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
1778 M. Flinders Diary June in Gratefull to Providence (2007) I. 71 We got off early in the Morn, viz. 5 o'clock, and reached Peterborough by 8.
1839 Spirit of Times 11 May 115/2 In the second heat Coloradian did not get off very well, and the bay horse got the start some hundred yards or more.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. ix. 228 ‘You promised to recommend me a servant who had travelled in the East.’ ‘Well, are you in a hurry?’ said Lord Eskdale... ‘I should like to get off as soon as practicable.’
1878 Sat. Rev. 26 Oct. 527/1 When a crowd of horses get off for a comparatively short race there is generally a tremendous scramble at starting.
1897 A. Morrison Dorrington Deed-box i We..got off comfortably by the ten o'clock train from Euston.
1922 Harper's Mag. Feb. 339/1 Come, we must be getting off, or we sha'n't be home till it's too late to explain.
1964 H. S. Thompson Let. 25 Nov. in Proud Highway (1997) 474 And when you tell me to get off to Berkeley for the sit-ins I say no thanks.
2012 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 31 July a4 He took it [sc. a boat's starter] all apart, cleaned it up and it was good to go. ‘He allowed us to get off at seven o'clock in the morning.’
c. intransitive. In imperative. colloquial. Used as an exclamation expressing impatience or incredulity; = to get away 1b(b) at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressions of disbelief [interjection]
to go toc1275
in good timea1470
Walker1811
to get off1818
this beats my grandmother1819
to go on1835
your granny!1837
to get away1847
I ask you1855
great guns!1875
sure1907
oh yeah1927
Aunt Fanny1928
go 'long1974
to sod off1976
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 27 Get aff wi' your Hieland impudence.
1958 J. Wain Contenders 29Get off,’ I said. I should explain that ‘Get off’ is an expression much used in North Staffordshire as an ironic rejoinder to obvious remarks.
1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) xiii. 115 Get off... You don't know what you're talking about.
2000 Independent 13 Aug. 38 I was like, ‘Get off!’ I honestly didn't believe him.
d. transitive. To send (a letter, message, etc.) away from where one is. Also: to send (a person) away for some purpose.
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1821 E. H. MacLeod Tales of Ton 2nd Ser. II. 197 I can get a letter off to Emma before that time.
1887 W. D. Howells Minister's Charge xxviii. 402 I've been trying to get off a letter to you..but I've been round so much, and upside down so much..that I've not been able to fetch it.
1918 E. Wharton Let. 7 July (1988) 406 I meant my very darndest to get off a letter last Friday.
1952 J. Thompson Killer inside Me xviii. 113 And she fixed her folks an early dinner, and got them off to a picture show about seven.
1961 I. Fleming Thunderball xxiii. 240 I'm going to..get a signal off to Navy Department.
1992 R. Condon Venerable Bead x. 56 It was essential that he get a signal off to Beijing.
3. intransitive. To escape, get away. to get off of: to get out of (now nonstandard).
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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A4v I would I knew how to get off with any indifferent Grace: Here take your Cloake, and promise some satisfaction in your Prologue. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 126 They fought together, but Auffidius got off . View more context for this quotation
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iv. 61 The Right Wing of the Christian Army, having..abandoned its attack..gave opportunity to the Janizaries..to get off on this side.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Apr. (1948) I. 242 I sent my excuses, adorned with about thirty compliments, and got off as fast as I could.
1749 W. Dodwell Free Answer 109 I was wondering..how he would get off of this difficulty.
1837 W. T. Moncrieff Sam Weller ii. iv. 23 I have strange misgivings—this letter that I've received from my landlady, calling upon me to fulfil my promise of marrying her..troubles me—I must get off of it somehow.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xi. 232 An alarm was given that the soldiers were in pursuit; they..got off to a different part of the forest, before the little pursuing detachment came.
1871 J. E. Cooke Out of Foam i. vii. 49 ‘Now is the time to get off,’ whispered the gypsy. ‘No: now is the time to discover more,’ returned Earle, coolly.
1913 W. New Eng. Mag. Oct. 420/1 They'll slip out of sight, and even if you foller their tracks for days they'll get off.
1983 Irish Times 18 June (Weekend section) 7/3 Will they get off to safety in time?
1991 W. Reynolds in V. LoBrutto Sel. Takes ii. 25 At that point I called Warren and said, ‘As this is the procedure she is going to follow, you don't need three editors anymore, can I go?’ That's how I got off of it.
4.
a. transitive. To deliver (a person) from punishment, or procure a modified penalty for.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation
freeeOE
unbind1297
quitclaima1325
acquit1340
excuse1340
loose1340
releasec1350
assoil1366
soilc1384
dischargea1387
quita1387
relieve1416
absoil1440
deliver1440
acquittance1448
quiet1450
acquiet1453
absolve?a1475
defease1475
skill1481
relax1511
redeema1513
exoner1533
exonerate1548
solvec1550
distask1592
disgage1594
upsolve1601
disoblige1603
disengage1611
to get off1623
exclude1632
supersedea1644
to let off1814
to let out1869
1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iv. ii. sig. M3 I am got off, Sir Iew, a bribe hath done it.
1646 Earle of Carberyes Pedegree 1 The said Earle is about London, making all the friends he can to get him off of these ills.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 46 I'll see and get you off if I can.
1790 E. Butler Jrnl. 24 Apr. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 250 She threatened to ‘wand him’ but we got him off.
1862 Temple Bar 5 452 He promised to get my master off on payment of a fine.
1885 Times 18 May 5 Riel's friends were powerful enough to get him off with five years' banishment.
1937 W. M. Raine Bucky follows Cold Trail ii. 12 He'll hire some slick lawyer to get him off. Let the folks he has ruined cook his goose for him, I say.
1983 R. Rendell Speaker of Mandarin xviii. 205 He got Henry off, of course he did, considering Henry never done it.
2003 Independent 2 Dec. i. 15/5 His solicitor bottled out on the day before the Old Bailey trial and the replacement was unable to get him off, despite an alibi provided by workmates.
b. intransitive. To evade or avoid punishment, defeat, injury, loss, etc., entirely, or to a specified degree; to escape with or for a specified (comparatively lenient) loss or penalty; to be acquitted in a criminal trial.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > escape unscathed
escapec1330
to get off1640
to come out smelling of roses1960
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. 81 The Christians got off with the losse of two thousand men.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. 146 The Christians having got off for seventy two thousand horse, and two and twenty thousand of their infantry.
1664 R. Hooke Let. 10 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 400 It was Mr. Rich: Reves that has kild his wife, but he now hopes, that he shall be able to gett off.
1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel Answer to Pref. sig. B4v But perhaps the Trinitarians will not so easily get off here.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 288 He got off for 4000l.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 98 By this artful compliment Mr. Pope got off.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxiii. 367 He had got off very well with a reprimand.
1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! III. iv. 79 The Pennefathers got off with fewer rebukes than usual.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxxvi. 408 The leaders of the insurrection got off much more lightly than their followers.
1928 E. Waugh Decline & Fall i. xiii. 145 He'll get off on a plea of insanity. Loopy, you know.
1943 Signalman's Jrnl. Jan. 27 The United States got off lightly in the first World War.
1954 A. White Beyond Glass i. ii. 25 But that's barbarous! He gets off scot free and she has to be dragged through the mud.
1989 T. M. Albert Tales Ulster Detective 34 The burglary at the Rectory was never solved, and the lads who had been the catalyst in the whole thing got off with a caution.
1997 V. Suvorov & A. Sabelnikov Fist Manned Spaceflight xvi. 109 Fortunately he got off lightly: only minor injuries and a pair of bruises.
2008 Independent 8 May 33/1 Against the odds the celebrity gets off, usually because a dozy policeman or prosecutor has failed to follow the correct procedure.
5.
a. transitive. To get off one's hands; to find a market for (goods); colloquial to get (one's daughter) married (now rare). Also intransitive: to get married or engaged to be married.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > get (someone) married
to put off1631
to get off1677
1677 R. Ferguson East-India-trade 24 They fall the price, and under-sell one another, to get off their Goods.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 248. ⁋8 The common Design of Parents is to get their Girls off as well as they can.
1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 6 Woods..to get them [his Half-Pence] off offered an Hundred Pounds in his Coin for Seventy or Eighty in Silver.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. ii. 41 There's no less than six of her nieces, whom she has got off within these four winters—Not one of 'em now, that has not made a catch-match.
1848 Punch 15 153 We are not aware that ‘high moral attainments’ were required to get off ‘fifty thousand straw bonnets’.
1868 F. C. Burnand Hit & ‘Miss’ i. 14 You should have got her off as she's a daughter—Why, noblemen in numbers must have sought her.
1915 B. Ruck Courtship of Rosamond Fayre iii ‘Miss Urquhart's got off herself.’ ‘She has and she hasn't. Her chap's always away.’
1923 E. Bowen Encounters 116 It had been difficult to get poor Cicely off.
1989 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 31 May (sport section) 52 A rights offering would have got the stock off at a touch under $50.
b. intransitive. to get off with: to get rid of, have done with. Obsolete.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of
refusea1387
to be rid of (also on)c1450
beskyfte1470
to be, get shut of, (dialect) shut on?a1500
to claw off1514
get1558
to put away1577
to get rid of1591
quit1606
to get off with1719
ding1753
shoot1805
to stay shet of1837
shuck1848
shunt1858
shake1872
to dust off1938
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 148 I thought to have gotten off with my young Priest, by telling him [etc.].
c. transitive. To succeed in uttering (something, esp. a joke).
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > succeed in uttering
to get off1843
1843 Trumpet & Universalist Mag. 21 Jan. 121 Mr. H. chuckled into his sleeves when he got off his joke on the Millerites.
1849 Yale Literary Mag. 14 187 There is the writing of one who tried to ‘get off’, as the boys say, something comic on every occasion.
1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. (1873) vii. 58 Have you a good set of teeth, which you are willing to show whenever the wit of the company gets off a good thing?
1886 K. S. Macquoid Sir J. Appleby II. vi. 83 If [he] had to speak at any public occasion, he could never get a sentence off without hesitation.
1891 Chambers's Jrnl. 618/1 They would..get off their jokes on him and insult him.
1939 Business Week 25 Feb. 36/2 You've heard some radio comedian crack, after getting off a poor gag, ‘There goes my Crossley’.
1978 D. Norden in F. Muir & D. Norden Take my Word for It 87 Descartes was able to get off quite a few zingers relating to..rationality.
2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Feb. c1 Carell got off a joke when he introduced the nominees for Best Animated Feature by calling ‘Ratatouille’ a scathing indictment of health code violations, when it is actually about a cute rodent in the kitchen.
6. intransitive.
a. Originally: to dismount from a horse. Subsequently also: to alight from a railway carriage, tram, bus, etc. Also (esp. in early use) with from or (now nonstandard) of. Cf. to get off —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > dismount
lighteOE
alightOE
falla1300
avoid1485
demountc1540
elight1542
descend1548
avale1590
dismount1594
alighten1600
unlight1623
unhorse1633
unmount1655
to get off1688
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Bb3v/3 To get off from his Horse, descendre de Cheval.
1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 113 Ha, Brother Jack, says I, get off of the Horse this Moment.
1774 J. Woodforde Diary 16 Mar. (1924) I. 125 When I came to Shepton I got of at Mr. White's.
1834 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 29 Jan. 1/5 The Massachusetts Masons,..like the rummy deacon, who fell from his horse—have merely ‘got off to get on better’.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii. 204 Many people can ride on horseback who find it hard to get on and to get off without assistance.
1885 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 24 Apr. This persistent practice of the dear public in getting off of moving cars.
1896 G. Ade Artie i. 5 If he gets on a street-car where I am, I get off and walk.
1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms ix. 73 He entered the train at Oxford Circus and got off at Piccadilly.
1935 E. Bagnold National Velvet viii. 137 Velvet flung herself off... ‘What have you got off for?’ said Mrs. Brown.
1969 J. Singer tr. I. B. Singer Estate ii. xii. 187 A stout woman in a fur coat and a velvet hat got off. Someone carried her basket and a small valise.
1986 D. Arkell Alain-Fournier ii. 35 They were getting off at the same stop near the Luxembourg Gardens.
1994 S. E. Ambrose D-Day xix. 370 The GIs were trying to get off, but when the first two got shot as they jumped off the ramp, the others refused to leave.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). to tell (someone) where he or she gets off (also to tell (someone) where to get off) and variants: to rebuke for presumption or interference; to tell off.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
1900 G. Ade More Fables 163 He said he was a Gentleman, and that no Cheap Skate in a Plug Hat could tell him where to Get Off.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 93 Once in a while I got to assert my authority, and..I told him just exactly where he got off.
1953 J. Trench Docken Dead vi. 90 I'm sure you knew how to deal with the police. Told them where they got off, I expect.
1963 D. Lessing Man & Two Women 128 If just for once she told us where to get off.
1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) xi. 156 He could have told her any time he liked exactly where she could get off.
2001 C. Petit Hard Shoulder (2002) 25 Ach, tell her where to get off, that's what I would do. You're the one that fucking came back to lend a hand, so she can bloody well respect that once in a while.
c. U.S. colloquial. where does —— get off doing (also to do)?: what right has —— (to do something)?, how dare —— (do something)? Also: (without gerund or infinitive as complement) where does —— get off?
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1922 McClure's Mag. Apr. 62/1 Where does he get off challenging the champion?
1948 Life 1 Mar. 13/2 Where does John G. Nichols get off calling Wyoming's capitol building a sprawling mess…?
1954 V. Delmar & E. Delmar Mid-summer iii. 69 Where does he get off to make a proposition like that—.
1959 G. Paley Little Disturbances of Man 114 Where does he get off? That fat slob... What does he think I am?
1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities (1988) iii. 70 Where did she get off, giving him such a hard time?
2006 C. Messud Emperor's Children (2007) 410 Where the fuck do you get off, you little nullity, you common little piece of shit, snooping around in my papers and crapping all over them?
7. transitive. To learn, commit to memory. Also to get off by heart (cf. sense 20).
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)]
record?c1225
renderc1380
to can by rotec1405
con?a1425
to con by heartc1449
can1496
to bear away1530
get1540
commend to memory1550
commit?1551
to con over1605
rotea1616
lodge1622
to get off by heart1709
memorize1834
rehearse1902
memorate1983
1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 308 He would always make them set about his own [Grammar], and spend time in getting it off intirely.
?1786 J. Nares Conc. & Easy Treat. on Singing 3 The Scholar ought..to get this Table off by Heart.
1856 Children's Mag. 211 We..hope every one of you will get them [sc. religious verses] off perfectly; and never forget them as long as you live.
1861 Temple Bar 3 141 Read the Times..and get off by heart that portion..devoted to the news of the money-market.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 201 Our religious system has no set form of liturgy to be got off by heart and repeated.
1927 W. Katzin tr. J.-J. Bernard Glamour ii. ii. in Eight European Plays 43 Gérard. Then will you hear my fable now? Olivier. [Far off.] If you like. Gérard. I've got it off pat, you'll see.
1942 Scotsman 29 Oct. 4/2 The young lecturer had got it off by heart, but at sight of the dignified assembly he found to his horror that he had forgotten every word.
2012 Express (Nexis) 31 May 15 I made an effort in my 20s to get off by heart Coleridge's gorgeous poem Frost At Midnight.
8.
a. transitive. To succeed in getting (a child) to go to sleep. colloquial.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > put to or cause to sleep
swevec725
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepa1500
slumber?1533
soporate1623
insomniatea1657
to get off1836
sleepa1843
1836 Mag. Domest. Econ. 1 210 On no account should it be considered indispensable that a child should be ‘got off to sleep’.
1951 N. Mitford Blessing i. iii. 25 Well, I only hope he won't overexcite the poor little fellow. You know what it's like getting him off, evenings.
1968 A. Laski Keeper ii. 23 Gavin's been playing up; teeth; I think she may have just about got him off.
2006 N. Monaghan Killing Jar (2007) ii. 11 Mommar used to take me for drives when I was little, to get me off to sleep.
b. intransitive. To succeed in falling asleep; to fall asleep. Frequently in to get off to sleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
to fall overa1752
to go off1813
to drop off1820
to fall off1822
to get off to sleep1837
to fall off1862
tope1863
sleepy-baw1907
to go out1928
to zizz off1962
1837 United Service Jrnl. Sept. 50 I..at last found a snug berth on the booms under the bow of the launch, and got off to sleep.
1855 Ladies' Repository Oct. 596/1 When I went to bed I found it very difficult to sleep; and when I did get off at last, my thoughts shaped themselves into a singular dream.
1891 Cassell's Family Mag. Mar. 212/1 I find I can get off to sleep by trying to count up to 100.
1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room i. 17 I thought he'd never get off—such a hurricane.
1934 L. A. G. Strong Corporal Tune iii. iv. 267 If you find you can't get off tonight..don't lie awake. Ring your bell, and ask sister to give you my ‘A’ drink.
1969 A. Laski Dominant Fifth v. 182 The doctor gave me some very good sleeping-pills and said I must take one every evening, and so I did, though not until I'm sure Tess has got off.
1998 A. Hollinghurst Spell (1999) i. 11 Actually I was asleep. I'd just got off, I'm extremely tired.
2011 T. Slater No More Time-outs 102 After one of her funny cigarette things, a couple of Valiums and a pint of Remy Martin VSOP, she got off to sleep.
9. intransitive. slang (originally U.S.). Frequently with on.
a. To achieve sexual satisfaction; to experience an orgasm; cf. to get one's rocks off at rock n.1 Phrases 9.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > be under influence of drugs [verb (intransitive)] > become intoxicated by drugs
to get off1867
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [verb (intransitive)] > experience pleasurable excitement
to get off1867
buzz1927
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [verb (intransitive)] > experience sexual ecstasy or climax
to get off1867
to feel the earth move1940
climax1971
orgasm1973
1867 A. Doten Jrnls. (1973) II. 959 She didn't get off at all—too much in a hurry [printed in cipher Shz tltn'd gzd jvv xd xii-- Djj mcuh ln x hcrrw].
1973 D. Lang Freaks 30 Another time..Annie got off on her own fingers while describing exactly what it felt like to her ex-husband on the telephone.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone ii. 55 And the shrink getting off on it all, sitting there with one hand stuck in his fly.
2006 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Aug. 136/3 What a strange little game, orgasmic cat-n-mouse—he wants me to come; I don't want him to know for sure that I did, but I never leave his hotel room without getting off.
b. Of a jazz musician: to improvise skilfully.
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1933 Fortune Aug. 47/1 Returning to Trombonist Brown, he can get off, swing it, sock it, smear it, or go to town (all of which mean syncopate to beat the band).
1937 Amer. Speech 12 182/1 Lick, what a soloist plays when he gets off, if it is hot.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 579/9 Play ‘hot jazz’; ‘swing’, get off on it.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 4 When I get off on my horn the joint still jumps.
1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) xii. 289 The present-day solo is esteemed modern and full of ideas in direct proportion to the more unrecognizable it makes the melody. Such ‘getting off’ conceals lack of true invention.
1966 Downbeat 5 May 23 You can bet a man that they can get off on them horns.
1997 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) 24 July c7 Trombonist Keith Bilinsky and trumpeter Even Champion got off some ripping solos.
c. To experience an emotional high; to enjoy or be turned on by something.
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1952 C. Himes Cast First Stone xxi. 239 It was just..a substitute for sex. Just getting off, I thought.
1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 May 43/3 Yeah, there are hockey chicks, girls who get off on jocks.
1973 Rolling Stone 8 Nov. 20/3 I remember buying their album and getting off.
1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) ii. 10/2 She really got off on weddings.
1984 N. Mailer Tough Guys don't Dance ii. 29 I could get off on my plans for the day if only the dream that I was in Prison would not persist.
2009 M. A. Taylor-Hall At Breakers iii. 172 She seemed..to be getting off on this largely female, elderly atmosphere of comfort and routine.
d. To be under the influence of or stimulated by an illicit drug; to get high.
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1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike xxv. 138 I'm dying to get off.
1969 R. R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z 82 Get off, to inject heroin.
1980 A. Kukla in L. Michaels & C. B. Ricks State of Lang. 521 Did you get off on that acid you took last night?
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 77 His pupils were pinpricks: Could you have a tea high? As Adam said, if you take enough of anything you'll get off on it.
10. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly British). To become acquainted or friendly with (a potential sexual partner); (also) to have a sexual relationship with.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)] > become amorously acquainted with
to get off1913
cop1940
1913 in P. Farrer Confid. Corr. on Cross Dressing (1997) 54 He was walking past as if he did not know me, but I gave him the glad eye in the approved fashion, and actually got off with him!
1914 W. L. George Making of Englishman III. 300 She had come into the restaurant on the chance of ‘getting off’ with ‘one of the boys’.
1925 ‘F. Lonsdale’ Spring Cleaning i. 13 What fun it would be if one of us could get off with him.
1936 W. H. Auden Look, Stranger! 35 The lady who admires us, you Have thought you're getting off with too.
1967 J. G. Davis Hold my Hand I'm Dying xx. 176 ‘It's the same every party’, I said, ‘everybody getting off with everybody else's spouse.’ She nodded... ‘Is she attractive?’.. ‘Listen, Suzie. I wasn't messing around with her. She just makes a bit of a fuss of me’.
a1971 S. Smith Coll. Poems (1975) 316 Mother said if I wore this hat I should be certain to get off with the right sort of chap.
2000 M. Beaumont e 153 What happened to you Friday night? Did you get off with that Bosnian barmaid?
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to get off ——
to get off ——
Cf. to get off at Phrasal verbs 1.
1. intransitive.
a. Originally: to dismount from (a horse). Subsequently also: to alight from (a railway carriage, tram, bus, aircraft, etc.).to get off one's bike: see bike n.2 Phrases 1.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > dismount from
void1470
avoid1557
unstride1635
dismount1638
to get off ——1652
unmount1892
1652 tr. M. de Scudéry Hist. Philoxypes & Polycrite 25 He got off horse-back, leaving his horse with his servant.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xvii. 211 He seldom will condescend to get off his horse.
1841 Gardeners' Chron. 3 Apr. 221/3 The gentleman refused to give it up, taking it into the omnibus when he got off the train.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxvii. 358 Have you ever seen Lord Hotspur get off his horse when he thinks nobody is looking? Taken out of his stirrups, his shiny boots can hardly totter up the steps of Hotspur House.
1890 Cent. Mag. July 349/1 When I got off the train, I found myself on a moss-grown platform.
1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes v. 143 He thought that we ought to get off the train at a place called Munich.
1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth 166 I gets off a bus in Old Street, all loaded up with clobber.
1961 Mag. Western Hist. Winter 32/1 When they reached the river, the son got off his pony and lay down on the bank to drink.
2007 Wine & Spirit May 57/1 I just got off a plane from Chile.
b. To remove oneself or be removed or displaced from (a place, position, route, etc.); to stop resting on (a part of the body). Also: to disengage from (an activity, attitude, topic of discussion, etc.).get off my back: see back n.1 23d. to get off one's backside: see backside n., adj., and adv. Phrases 3. to get off the ground: see ground n. 8b. to get off one's perch: see perch n.1 Phrases 1. to (shit or) get off the pot: see pot n.1 Phrases 13.
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1772 Gentleman's & London Mag. Sept. 573/1 On getting off the horse's back, hold the bridle and mane in the same manner as when you mounted.
1798 W. Clubbe Omnium 33 He got off his box, and went to splicing the fractures [of the harness].
1806 H. K. White Let. July in Remains (1807) I. 234 As I am much alone now, I never get quite off study.
1845 Rep. Select Comm. Atmospheric Railways 190 (table) in Parl. Papers (H.C. 252) X. 177 Goods-truck getting off the line by the breaking of a coupling.
1855 Startling Facts for Native Amer. 99 They have to get off their knees every time they go round.
1859 All Year Round 31 Dec. 222/2 I know not how I should have ‘got off’ the scene, as actors say.
1919 Outing Mar. 306/3 I felt like shouting to him to get off my land.
1926 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 363/2 We got off the end of the runway at a terrific speed.
1962 J. Clavell King Rat xv. 234 We did all right alone—giving you buggers the time to get off your arse.
1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 8/3 We must get off this kick that every job is a career—it isn't.
1985 D. Lucie Progress ii. ii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business (1991) 143 Ange Ronee? Can I ask you something? Ronee Trying to get off the subject?
1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own i. vii. 89 Too lazy to get off their behinds and do things for themselves.
1991 Coarse Fishing Feb. 6/2 I have, by the very nature of bringing this subject into debate, got off my butt as you suggested.
2006 Wired Apr. 139/1 When it comes to immersive gameplay, some people just have to get off the couch.
c. To give up, to cease to use (medication, an illegal drug, etc.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > cause addiction to drugs [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from addiction
to get off ——1951
withdraw1971
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > abandon, give up, or discontinue
forhightc1000
forswearOE
forletc1175
sdeign1590
to think (the) better of1752
to get off ——1951
1951 W. S. Burroughs Let. 5 May (1993) 86 When I got off the junk, I decided I didn't want any more part of it in any way.
1968 H. S. Thompson Let. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 9 All these veteran heads keep telling me to get off the speed because it's dangerous.
1979 Maclean's 5 Mar. 34/1 Pierre, a good Catholic, insisted she get off the pill.
1993 Flex Feb. 129/3 Lots of bodybuilders take strange chemicals..; so if you are going to do that, you'd better know just when to get off those substances.
2006 Total Film Feb. 104/2 I'd mended my ways by those days, I'd got off the sauce and all that.
d. In imperative U.S. get off it: expressing rejection, rebuke, or incredulity.
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1973 J. W. Zeigler Revolutionary Stage xiii. 217 ‘Get with it,’ he was saying to the central theatre. ‘Get off it,’ the central theatre replied.
1978 T. O'Brien Going after Cacciato xliv. 313 ‘Maybe we could explain it... Couldn't we? tell them how Cacciato—’ ‘Get off it man.’
1985 R. Carver Fires 191 What a hell of a thing to be thinking about... Come on, get off it.
2005 D. Heyn Drama Kings ii. 26 He'd get annoyed, like, ‘Oh, who cares. Just…get off it.’
2. intransitive. To obtain release from.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > get out of doing something
evade1722
to get out of ——a1817
to get off ——1835
odds1958
1735 R. Smythe Let. 8 May in A. Pope Wks. I. 482 If I should get off my engagement for this evening, leave word where I shall meet you.
1797 F. G. Waldron Virgin Queen ii. iii. 35 Now to try if we can get off keeping watch!
1835 J. Constable Let. 12 Sept. (1967) V. 27 I wish I could get off going there to lecture.
1893 Sir R. Romer in Law Times Rep. 68 443/1 It appears to me impossible to say that the defendants can get off the contract.
1950 R. Heinlein Farmer in Sky xii. 120 The only two merit badges..that stood in the way of my getting off probation and back up to my old rating of Eagle Scout were agronomy and planetary ecology.
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 20 May 3 A bunch of layabouts who have neither the means, nor the desire, to get off jury service.
2009 J. M. Carroll & K. Schultz Underneath It All 106 Encourage him to get off work a little early.
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