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There are different usages for the phrase "take off." In the non-idiomatic sense, as in "take off your hat, or "take a little off the top," "take" means to manipulate, to control. In the idiom "take (oneself) off " meaning to depart hastily, or of an airplane, to begin flight, it has no separate meaning - that is why idioms cannot be "figured out" simply by understanding the words in them.

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