英语词汇“get off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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. Bb3^v/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. C^v 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.

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 29 ‘Get 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. A4^v I would I knew how to get off with any indifferent Grace: Here take your Cloake, and promise some satisfaction in your Prologue.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 126 They fought together, but Auffidius got off .

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.

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. B4^v 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.

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. Bb3^v/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.

ΘΚΠ

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?

ΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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.

a. transitive. To succeed in getting (a child) to go to sleep. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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?

单词	get off
释义	> as lemmas to get off to get off 1. transitive. a. To remove from a surface or place; (also) to rescue (a stranded or trapped person). ΘΚΠ 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. Bb3^v/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. ΚΠ 1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. C^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 29 ‘Get 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. ΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A4^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. B4^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Bb3^v/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. ΘΚΠ 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? ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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? extracted from getv. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. extracted from getv. < as lemmas
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