Read full poem →Edw, Throw off his golden mitre, rend his stole.
And in the channel christen him anew.
Dictionary Entry
To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
In a Sentence
“I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.”
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Poetry examples for “throw off”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off such government,and to provide
new guards for their futire security. Such has been the -
Read full poem →And all his tail that isn't hair up straight.
He shudders his coat as if to throw off flies.
"Whoever it is that leaves him out so late,