Read full poem →For plvmder'd folks ought to be rail'd upon;
But (as stoln goods go off at half theu* worth)
Thy strong sense pedis, when they purloin it forth.
Dictionary Entry
To explode.
In a Sentence
“The bomb went off right after the president left his office.”
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Poetry examples for “go off”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ah, Mrs. Graham! people may scoff,
But how your home-kept girls go off!
How Hymen hastens to unband
Read full poem →pinged out twelve notes one after the other, Jay Cee told me I'd done
enough work for the day, and to go off to the Ladies’ Day tour and
banquet and to the film premiére, and she would see me bright and
Read full poem →We could do nothing, but wipe his bleeding cough.
Could it be accident?--Rifles go off . . .
Not sniped? No. (Later they found the English ball.)