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transfer
The spy sent the classified information off to Russia -
cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife -
deliver verbally
He got off the best line I've heard in a long time -
escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
She gets away with murder!
I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities - be relieved of one's duties temporarily
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get out of quickly
The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car -
send via the postal service
I'll mail you the check tomorrow -
enjoy in a sexual way
He gets off on shoes - leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
- alight from (a horse)
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get high, stoned, or drugged
He trips every weekend
How To Use get off In A Sentence
- Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
- I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
- Few of the studios' prime big-budget offerings these days are reliant on glamorous big-paycheque names. Times, Sunday Times
- Fine, get off your keister and do something about it.
- Anyway, I want to get off the subject of fiancées and weddings.
- Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said.
- It was easy to get off to the centre, for the big pans at the edge would float a far greater weight than a komatik and dogs and three people. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
- A handful of local people get off the bus, dispersing in different directions.
- The 10th kind of method is: Will wear the silver on the hand to act the role of get off, brush with cotton cloth black hind use thrush, have the effect of eyebrow pencil, avirulent .
- World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst has urged youngsters to get off the couch and start taking part in competitive sport.
