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shake off
verb
- to remove or be removed with or as if with a quick movement
she shook off her depression
- tr to escape from; elude
they shook off the police
Idioms and Phrases
Free oneself or get rid of something or someone, as in I've had a hard time shaking off this cold , or She forged ahead, shaking off all the other runners . It is also put as give someone the shake , as in We managed to give our pursuers the shake . The first term dates from the late 1300s; the slangy variant dates from the second half of the 1800s.Example Sentences
Using a colander or other method of choice, shake off excess flour-cornmeal before lowering okra into hot oil.
“I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience,” Siegfried later wrote.
Not able to shake off a foot problem, he had been named on the bench by Coleman - but only to keep the opposition guessing, something that had confused supporters.
My city never has shaken off its reputation as “Klanaheim,” because politicians and residents continued the racism, even as memories of the Klan faded.
It took a while to shake off the despondency and depression many of us felt after Trump was restored and then deputized a weird billionaire to wreck the government.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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