"cast off for" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It generally means to depart from a place, such as a ship setting sail for a new destination. For example, "The ship cast off for the Far East shortly after dawn."
Have I mentioned I fear to be cast off for Swype?
When Lear, having divided his kingdom, turns on the recalcitrant Goneril, Pryce savagely kisses her and threatens to "resume the shape which thou dost think I have cast off for ever".
We now understand that Europe, the European Union, is doubtless a solution, but not any old Europe and any old union: the solution is a Europe on terms that now seem seriously compromised, if not cast off for good.
Funky hotel, Egadi islands, Sicily As Italy's A-list cast off for the islands each August, even sleepy Favignana, an hour's boat ride from Trapani, gets its fair share of celebs.
And, while they've performed with Madonna in New York and attended festivals in Vegas and freedom forums in Oslo, and will speak tomorrow at a Guardian Live event in London, they haven't just gaily stepped aboard the celebrity circuit and cast off for sunnier shores.
Leaving fricasseed rodents to Peru's hardier lunchers, we cast off for the top of the world.
In our super-size-me digital world they have engineered a growing plethora of options – a curse that we seem incapable of casting off for fear of not being "connected".
Anti-feminist alt-right blogger Matt Forney urged young men to cast off concern for women.
For Burkhart's painting style, made to look like calendar cast offs for each month of Taylor's (and Burkhart's) passing life, vitalizes the public, if imaginary, conflation of Taylor's sexual indiscretions and provocative filmography.
"We have to cast off once and for all the 1970s cynicism that sneered from the back of the classroom at the joiner and volunteer," the authors write in a typical passage.
It was a heady time: teachers, including Rem Koolhaas, Nigel Coates, Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind, challenged students to cast off their enthusiasms for modernist and postmodernist architects and develop a more radically experimental architecture.
