take off after

take off after somebody

to chase someone Several people took off after the thief and caught him before the police got there.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aude	OD	French
Cadeyrn	-	Ancient Celtic
Les	LES, LEZ	English
Janka	-	Slovak
Vicente	bee-THEN-te (Spanish), bee-SEN-te (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Lilya	-	Russian, Ukrainian