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bite off

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bite something off
to remove something in a bite. Ann bit a piece off and chewed it up. She bit off a piece.
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After I got the knife away, he tried to bite off my nose.
Sancho promised him with much earnestness to keep his mouth shut, and to bite off his tongue before he uttered a word that was not altogether to the purpose and well considered, and told him he might make his mind easy on that point, for it should never be discovered through him what they were.
When dey do not bite off your thumbs dey are always dying from nostalgia-homesick-for dey haf der imperfect soul, which is midway arrested in defelopment-und too much Ego.
 
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