shooexclamation
uk/ʃuː/us/ʃuː/said to animals or children to make them go away:
"Shoo!" she shouted at the cat.
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Phrases telling people to go away
- (go and) take a running jump idiom
- beat it! idiom
- begone
- bike
- bog
- bog off
- bugger
- buzz
- fly
- go (and) jump in the lake idiom
- go fly a kite idiom
- go play with yourself! idiom
- go to blazes idiom
- hop
- push
- scat
- shove
- sling your hook idiom
- sod off
- take a hike! idiom
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shooverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ʃuː/us/ʃuː/present participle shooing, past tense and past participle shooed informalto make sounds and movements in order to send animals or children away:
Go and shoo that cat away before it catches a bird.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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