make off with
verb1
To steal (something) and flee.
- "Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, and make off with her? That would be a pretty go, that would."1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
2
To run away together with someone.
3
To capture (someone) and flee.
- "Gaston: The Beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night!"1991, Horward Ashman, The Mob Song - Beauty and the Beast:
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