Get off

The heavens opened just as I got off the bus.

WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.

"I get up and get the kids off. I do everything normal mothers do. I just do it in less time."

"I think we should get off, Enid. It is nearly seven," said he.

“I've been out for a walk around. The rain's blown over. We'll be able to get off right after breakfast.”

'I'm beginning to feel like London again. I wish we could get off right after breakfast.'

If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.

She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris.

Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank.

They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.

I'll get her to come and get a script off you in, say, a fortnight? And then I want you on all the shoots with me and Kate and that gothic tosspot who's presenting. You never know when it might need a rewrite, or he might need a kick up the arse, ...

The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.

You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.

"But I find you have been there after all," said the man, "and now you shall lose your life." The lad cried and begged for himself till he got off with his life; but he got a good thrashing.

He was allowed to rise with a warning that if he played any tricks he would not get off so lightly the second time.

Then he was charged with killing some sheep and a steer on the run, and converting them to his own use, but got off mainly because there was a difference of opinion between the squatter and the other local J.P. concerning politics ...

My parents were killed, but I got off with only a broken arm and a broken leg.

She could've faced jail time, but her talented lawyer got her off with only a fine.

She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning.

to get off a joke

I heard Nelson Algren on the Chez Show, a radio program emanating from the Sapphire Bar of the Chez Paree—you see I've sunk to the lower depths—and he got off a line about Hollywood being a con man's paradise, which wasn't a very ...

When Quayle looked silly by saying he would be a "pit bull" in the 1992 campaign, David Letterman got off a line about it ("For Halloween, he's going to be a Ninja Turtle"), but the general reaction was curiously tame.

He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.

If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.

This woman hadn't had an orgasm in maybe 10 years. It took me three hours to get her off.

What? You don't think I know how to get myself off? Hell, that's what half of band camp is. Sex Ed.

It was Need. Her Need took her half in sleep onto her pillow and with her own hand got her off.

Her husband's tongue was fast and ingenious, mastered at teasing her clit with rapid, fluttering flicks, and he knew how much pressure she liked from years of getting her off.

What'd she do to get you off? (Uh-huh) Taking down her hair like, oh, my God Taking off your shirt, I did that once Or twice, uh

It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.

I knew, because both Alison and Penny had taught me, that busting up with someone could be miserable, but I didn't know that getting off with someone could be miserable too.

For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.

Out of spite, Pharaoh cuts straw supplies and Jewish labourers have to make bricks without straw, the same target rates of productivity as before, but with no straw – virtually impossible. Pharaoh gets off on their exhaustion:

I'd like to get off with him after the party.

The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.

Each person has a more outrageous story than the previous teller. […] "The first time I got off on cocaine, man, it was just too fine."

Fear is biochemically similar to someone "getting off" on cocaine.

I need to get off the heroin.

Where do you get off talking to me like that?

in a word: he’s almost nobody, but his head’s filled with freedom, omniscience, transcendence beyond his foolish flesh, just where does he get off!

"And you're the only person in the country who can do it." "Get off," she said skeptically.

"If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."