bundle off
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[edit]bundle off (third-person singular simple present bundles off, present participle bundling off, simple past and past participle bundled off)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To send someone away quickly and without fussing.
- 2006, Elliot Mabeuse, A Game of Dress-up:
- Her mother came back in and pulled her out into the hallway as if she were bundling her off on a date and whispered urgently to her.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go somewhere unceremoniously.
- 1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle/Part 4/Chapter 5:
- The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a chance to stretch our cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks.