shoo off
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[edit]Verb
[edit]shoo off (third-person singular simple present shooes off, present participle shooing off, simple past and past participle shooed off)
- To send away; to shoo.
- 2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The Onion AV Club[1], archived from the original on 5 January 2019:
- Even when Holmes & Watson stumbles into something that could, in theory, make a decent gag—as in a scene where Watson tries to dictate a drunk, late-night telegram to Dr. Hart, or a visit to the Diogenes Club that finds him shooed off to a side room for idiot sidekicks—it bungles it with bad timing and slapdash composition.