Back off
Back off verb - To break a promise or agreement.
Die
Both terms in one sentence
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Much of the episode focuses on the efforts of several characters to get in the right position to use them, and when the moment comes many of them contact the Daleks via video link to warn them to back off or die.
- In Planescape: Torment, when you explain to the Mercykiller Vhailor how your immortality works, he moves to punish you as each time you die and regenerate, someone else dies in your place... but you can get him to back off by explaining the downside.
- In The Silmarillion, the Elvenking Thingol tries to get rid of his daughter LĂșthien's human suitor Beren by tasking him to get one of the holy Silmarils from the world's Satan-equivalent (who wears it constantly), thinking Beren'll either back off, fail, or die trying.
Source: Engagement Challenge
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