shoo off

Meanings

verbshoo off (third-person singular simple present shooes off, present participle shooing off, simple past and past participle shooed off)

present singular third person shooes off · participle present shooing off · participle past shooed off · past shooed off

transitiveTo send away; to shoo.
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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.
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, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2019

verbdrive away by crying ‘shoo!’

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