away with you
- idiom
- UK
:
¡fuera!
- Away with you! I don't want to hear any more excuses.
Examples
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Now away with you ruffians.
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Why did you want to take her away with you?
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Get away with you, Mr Edelweiss.
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Oh, Macoco, my fabulous Macoco, take me away with you.
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Away with you |
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When he started complaining, she simply told him, 'Away with you!'
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The teacher waved her hand dismissively and said, 'Away with you, children, it's time to settle down.'
Synonyms
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3.0
Leave a place quickly or suddenly
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1.0
To leave a place or person and go somewhere else
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3.5
Leave a person, place, or situation without taking part anymore
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7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
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4.1
To make people or animals go away by waving your hand
Tells someone angrily to go away
To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
away + with + you
The core meaning 'command someone to leave' is directly derivable from 'away' (movement away) combined with 'you' (the addressee); the preposition 'with' here is a fixed part of the idiom but does not obscure the directive sense. This is a straightforward imperative/dismissal construction common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it as 'go away' (they might only miss nuances of tone).
Etymology
The phrase away with you may come from a simple scene: a guard or ruler pointing at someone and ordering them to be led out. The word away shows being moved out and with you is like saying 'take them with you', so the line came to mean 'go away' or 'leave now'.