if a person or boat pushes off, or if you push a boat off, you sail away from the land
to leave a place
used for telling someone rudely and angrily to go away
And then told to push off, keep my nose clean, leave it to them.
I dragged the boat down to the water and pushed off.
I’ll wait ten minutes more; then I’ll push off for home.
Push off, and leave me alone!
She and Tod gave the raft a push off the sand and into the current.
She's had the doctor looking at her and he wanted her to have a nurse, but she told him to push off ," he protested.
`You have to hit bottom, then you'll push off and rise to the surface again.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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