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Be off at once. This is a French phrase, couper (cut away)—i.e. to break through the enemy’s ranks by cutting them down with your swords.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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