bug off

Idioms

Also, bugger off. Go away, as in Bug off before I call the police. Both terms are often used as an imperative, as in the example, and the variant is heard more in Britain than in America. [Slang; c. 1900] For a synonym, see buzz off.

Example Sentences

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Keyan Harvey developed necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug off the back of having chicken pox when he was six.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

So bug off and go read the New Yorker if you crave more precise and correct use of the language.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2019

We tell them their body is their own, and they get good at telling even parents to bug off when they don’t feel like being held or kissed.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2018

“It was time for me to bug off rather than becoming that grumpy old dude trying to stop change.”

From New York Times • May 18, 2016

“Will you tell this kid of yours to bug off and leave her father alone?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023