get along with you! excl.
a general excl. of dismissal and ridicule, esp. as a response to what is seen as excessive or insincere flattery, don’t be so silly! you can’t fool me!
Works 270: Poh, Dermot! go along with your goster. | ||
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 233: Get along with you! or the constable shall be charged with the whole press-gang to man the workhouse. | ||
Examiner 1 May n.p.: ‘I thought,’ said he, ’it was a buffalo.’ ‘Go along, you fool, [...] it is an ass’. | ||
Alive and Merry I i: day: And if you don’t beat a person for impudence, what would you beat him for? bella: Oh, go along with you! | ||
Hants. Advertiser 2 Oct. 5/1: Get along, you d— fool! | ||
Southport Teleg. (WI) 30 Sept. 1/4: ‘Ticket! sir,’ said Joe Armstrong [...] ‘Go ’long — I ain’t got no ticket,’ replied the Sucker. | ||
General Bounce (1891) 63: ‘Go along with you, Mr. Blacke,’ replied the sorrowing damsel. | ||
Paved with Gold 381: Go along with you — you don’t mean it. | ||
York Herald 12 Jan. 11/2: [He] said to the prisoner [...] ‘Go along, you fool, he is spinning that “cuffer” to get you to get your dinner’. | ||
Taunton Courier 9 July 7/4: Get along, you old fool. | ||
Letters from Jamaica 217: Is dis a way to speak to me? Go ’long wid you, you old good-for-nothing jackass riding-horse! | ||
Dagonet Ballads 84: Get along with you, Mister — I ain’t told no poems to you, / That tale about Polly ain’t potry. | ||
Social Sinners II 93: ‘Go along with you,’ cried her ladyship, laughing. | ||
Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 126: Ger lang, Jerusha! | ||
‘Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster’ in Roderick (1972) 142: ‘Why, that rooster’s a ventriloquist!’ [...] ‘Go along with yer!’. | ||
Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 2 Aug. 11/2: I s’pose he’s on the back platform enj’yin himself wid a seegar. G’long! | ||
Coeur d’Alene 72: Go along with your blarney! | ||
Amblers 280: Oh, get along with you, you and your philosophy. | ||
John Bull’s Other Island II ii: Galong with you! | ||
Marvel III:57 3: Get along with you, Tom Dun! | ||
Great Bend Trib. (KS) 6 May 3/1: ‘Go along, man! Divo’ce nothin’. Think I’ gwine t’ gin ’im what he wants [...] t’go sky-hootin’ roun’ ’mong dem gals? Na, sah!’. | ||
Mixed Marriage Act II: Aw, g’long wi’ ye, ye ould footer. | ||
Aus. Felix (1971) 201: Oh, get along with you! It was only one of Ned’s jokes. | ||
Porgy (1945) 42: ‘Go ’long wid yuh!’ she retorted. | ||
Chicago May (1929) 54: Go along with you, or I’ll fan ye with me club. | ||
Cornishman 3 Jan. 2/2: ‘Get along with you, old chap,’ said the surgeon. | ||
Battlers 16: ‘Don’t presume to address your betters, my man,’ she responded. ‘Get along with you.’. | ||
Come in Spinner (1960) 33: ‘Tell me you love me just to keep me going while I’m waiting.’ ‘Get along with you.’. |