admonition to a pest, by 1867 (in baseball slang), from shoo (v.) + fly (n.). Popularized by a Dan Bryant minstrel song c. 1870, which launched it as a catch-phrase that, according to H.L. Mencken, "afflicted the American people for at least two years." Shoo-fly pie is attested from 1935.
双语例句
1. Ms Brown is still no shoo-in for the November election.
布朗夫人在11月的选举中仍然没有十足的胜算。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Shoo, bird, shoo.
嘘！小鸟，嘘！
来自柯林斯例句
3. You'd better shoo him away.
你最好把他赶走。
来自柯林斯例句
4. He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
他折了一根柳树枝来驱赶苍蝇.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. Reagan was a shoo - in in the 1984 presidential election.
