Gately, Joelle, the veil (pp. 532–533)
The keep’s busy calling the Finest, the guy drops the Item and the keep grabbed him and covered him with the bar piece and called the Finest and kept the guy back behind the bar, I think mostly now to keep us from eliminating his map right there, out of payback. […] People was yelling at us to pile him in and take him to the hospital, but we’d got this walking-him-around idea into our heads, to hold him up and walk him in circles, the girl’s screaming and trying to put her stockings on and we’re yelling to the guy that’d shot him how we were going to off with his map and so on and so forth, till the keep called an ambulance and they came and he was dead as a stick.
Context
Gately, up late with the veiled Joelle, telling her the barroom shooting from his drinking days — a friend shot through the head while the drunk crew walks him in circles instead of getting help. The map idiom surfaces twice in one story, both times as threatened revenge on a face, and the second construction ("off with his map") shows the idiom loose and productive in Gately's native dialect: not a coinage he's quoting but a verb system he grew up inside.