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Walk off   /wɔk ɔf/   Listen
Walk off

verb
1.
Take without permission.  "The thief walked off with my gold watch"
2.
Go away from.  Synonym: walk away.  "I got annoyed and just walked off"





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"Walk off" Quotes from Famous Books



... but if you take my advice, my dear, don't leave her alone too much, in case somebody else more enterprising and not so easily repulsed should step in before you. If I were a man I wouldn't walk off for a girl's ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... chums to make their way more slowly out of the car. As they stepped from the car to the station platform Grace caught sight of her at the far end of the station in conversation with a tall auburn-haired girl and a short dark one. A moment later she saw the three walk off together. ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... beginning of things American and has never been exploited, will fetch him at a hand-gallop. Add a hint that we have our own brand of family spook, and you couldn't keep him away if you tried. The only trouble is that he may walk off with your brass tongs up his trouser-leg, or a print or two tucked under ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... man, fresh from the dusty, musty lectures of Cambridge, and out of the reach of his boisterous and carousing companions, grasped at the gentle, refined and sympathetic friendship of this brother and sister. The trinity would walk off across the fields and recline on the soft turf under a great spreading tree, reading aloud by turn from some good book. Such meetings always ended by Byron's reading to his friends any chance rhymes he had written ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... sick as death; my head was dizzy; and I went staggering along the walk, almost blind. At last I dropt on a heap of chain-cable, and shutting my eyes hard, did my best to rally myself, in which I succeeded, at last, enough to get up and walk off. Then I thought that I had done wrong in not returning to my friend's house the day before; and would have walked there now, as it was, only it was at least three miles up town; too far for me to walk in such a state, and I had no sixpence to ride ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville


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