whisk off
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whisk off (third-person singular simple present whisks off, present participle whisking off, simple past and past participle whisked off)
- (transitive, idiomatic) to rapidly remove.
- He was whisked off to the hospital.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To take (a person) on a surprise romantic journey.
- For our honeymoon, he whisked me off to the Bahamas.
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(take on a surprise romantic holiday): whisk away