get off! excl.
1. a general excl. of disbelief; don’t talk nonsense!
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 27: Get aff wi’ your Hieland impudence – brazen-faced thief! | ||
Marvel 12 Nov. 4: Get off! my articles are dazzling the public. | ||
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 152: Yeh, get off with you! said Dyke viciously. | ||
Riverslake 191: Get off yourself. You would have been in it if she would have. | ||
Hancock’s Half-Hour [Radio script] Oh get off woman. | ‘Hancock in Hospital’||
Till Death Us Do Part [TV script] Gerroff! Philip as Prime Minister – blimey. | ‘I Can Give it Up Anytime I Like’||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Get off, there’s no calories in weed-killer! | ‘The Second Time Around’||
Campus Sl. Mar. | ||
Indep. Rev. 13 Aug. 38: I was like, ‘Get off!’ I honestly didn’t believe him. |
2. stop it!
Magnet 20 June 2: Oh, get off! | ||
‘Whitman College Sl.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 154/1: get off me. ‘Stop criticizing me.’. | ||
Jungle Kids (1967) 31: Hey, man [...] get off that [i.e. indiscreet speech]. Cool it fast. | ‘Vicious Circle’ in||
Long Season 158: ‘They’ve got the best lobster you ever tasted and you know it,’ she said. ‘You haven’t been to San Francisco yet, dear girl.’ ‘Get off that, will you, Meat,’ she said. | ||
Campus Sl. Fall 4: GET OFF ME – plea to be left alone. |
3. (US campus) an expression of admiration.
Campus Sl. Oct. | ||
Sl. and Sociability 56: Many phrases formed around get are fixed expressions that show disbelief [...] or admiration (get back, get off, get up). |