push off

push off
push off & shove off
to leave. (As if one were pushing a boat away from a dock.) •

Well, it looks like it's time to push off.

It's time to go. Let's shove off.

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or[shove off] {v.} 1. To push a boat away from the shore. * /Before Tom could reach the boat, Jake had shoved off./ 2. {slang} To start; leave. * /We were ready to push off at ten o'clock, but had to wait for Jill./ * /Jim was planning to stay at the beach all day, but when the crowds arrived he shoved off./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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