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Lift off   /lɪft ɔf/   Listen
Lift off

verb
1.
Depart from the ground.  Synonym: take off.






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"Lift off" Quotes from Famous Books



... desolate reach of forest. Leaving these, I go down to the water edge of the sand, and find in it a quantity of pools of varying breadth and expanse, but each surrounded by a rim of dark red-brown deposit, which you can lift off the sand in a skin. On the top of the water is a film of exquisite iridescent colours like those on a soap bubble, only darker and brighter. In the river alongside the sand, there are thousands of ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... fleet assembled and ready. If convincing and, unfortunately, truthful rumors ran about Mekin, as elsewhere, concerning the fleet and Bors's attempts to hide it, then their dictator need only give a single order and the grand fleet would lift off. When it found Kandar unoccupied it would leave Kandar dead. Then it would seek out the fleet, and destroy it, and then it would move from one to another of its rebellious tributaries and ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins



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