"Off out"
Hi everyone. I began watching the "Sherlock" with subtitles and saw this sentence: "Sorry, Mrs. Hudson, I'll skip the tea. Off out.
Could you, please, explain to me what it means?
I'd like to know all of the meanings that phrasal verb (I am not sure what it is, but I think so.)
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It's a shortened version of "I'm off out".
"Off" simply means "away from here", and we use it to say that we're going somewhere. For example, at end of the day, you might say "I'm off home" to your workmates or classmates : this means that you are leaving your college or workplace and that you are setting off for home. There is no need to use a full verb form here - "I'm off" simply means that you are leaving.
Other phrases with 'off' meaning 'leaving to go somewhere' are "He's off to work", "I'm off to bed", for example.
So, "(I'm) off out" is a shorthand way of saying "I'm leaving the house and I'm going out".
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Off out is just a slang way of saying I am going out.
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Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it!
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