Where do you get off
Where do you get off telling me how to run my life?Often heard in movies of the 30s and 40s, this seems on the face of it an odd idiom. Is it related to the later sense of 'get off', eg I really get...
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The OED2 has examples from 1900 on, but doesn't draw a clear derivation from any of the many other senses of "get off". I don't think there's a connection to the one you mention, which is later and...
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