"mate off" is not a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It would not make sense in most sentences. In written English, one would instead use the phrase "part ways" or "split up" to indicate that two people (or things) are separating. For example: "The two of them had been inseparable for years, but after the argument they decided to part ways."
It has made him something of easy target in the past, too, with Sky's Bob Willis leading the catcalls during his underwhelming last showing in Centurion, when his dismissal for five in England's fourth-innings collapse was met with a brutal "there's my mate, off back to Birmingham for the rest of his career" before returning an improbable score of zero on his tour report card.
"His mates were telling us he was a bit tired when he dropped his mate off on the Central Coast, so it was the only thing we could really think of".
The arriving bird may call or "choke" and may have to push its reluctant mate off the eggs.
A fish hawk named Coley reunited with his mate off the coast of Queens this week on the first day of spring.
I am convinced that the better you know your mate off the pitch, the more you are able to work for him on it in uncomfortable situations.
During the 1952 presidential campaign, after the press reported on a secret Nixon fund, Eisenhower had the New York governor Thomas Dewey deliver the news that he wanted his running mate off the ticket.
The ball is crossed into the box and David Villa tries to control it whilst holding off Dani Alves, but the Brazilian defender does enough to put his former team-mate off and Pinto rushes out to clear.
"I pissed my team mates off," the text below it ran.
"I'm always telling my [non-SW] mates off for not being safe enough.
I've seen men so drunk they could barely stand, straighten up to tell their mates off for bad behaviour.
Your parents being called is embarrassing enough; your dad turning up, furious, in his Volvo to cart you and your mates off home while you're all coming down is second only to soiling yourself on public transport.
