shoo-fly

英文词源

shoo-fly (interj.)

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。

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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.

一九八四年的总统选举中,里根是胜算在握.

来自辞典例句

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