fling off

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fling off - write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess"

dash off, scratch off, toss off, knock off

authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"

indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

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w>fling off

vt sep (lit) coat → abwerfen; opponent → abschütteln; (fig) remark → hinwerfen; restraints → von sich werfen

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Queequeg, said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the water; Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?

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Then she was terrified, and wanted to fling off the red shoes, but they clung fast; and she pulled down her stockings, but the shoes seemed to have grown to her feet.

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The idea, overnight, had been that we should get up early in the morning, fling off our rugs and shawls, and, throwing back the canvas, spring into the river with a joyous shout, and revel in a long delicious swim.