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Idiom

hop off

Meaning

To back off; to leave alone.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Just hop off and leave me alone.”

“He kept asking about my private life, so I told him to hop off.”

“After the persistent salesman refused to take no for an answer, she firmly told him to hop off and stop bothering her.”

Examples

simple

“Just hop off and leave me alone.”

contextual

“He kept asking about my private life, so I told him to hop off.”

complex

“After the persistent salesman refused to take no for an answer, she firmly told him to hop off and stop bothering her.”

Key words

hop

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