get off Copy link Outline I. Trans.II. Intrans. • get off: I. Trans.: as to get a ship off a rock: perh. expĕdio, 4: v. to extricate. Virg. (Aen. 1, 145) has detrudo of the action of pushing ships off: v. to thrust off. II. Intrans.: to escape, be acquitted (q. v.): Phr.: 'i faith, I am getting off capitally, better than I expected, immo vero pulchre discedo et praeter spem, Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 58: do you think you will g. off unpunished? credin' te impune habiturum? id. Eun. 5, 2, 13: you will g. off scot-free, tu missus abibis, Hor. S. 2, 1, 86.