tear off

tear off idiom
  1. Produce hurriedly and casually, as in He tore off a poem a day for an entire month.
  2. Leave in a hurry, as in She tore off to the store because it was about to close. [c. 1900]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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