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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
Example Sentences
The vibrant yellow packaging has not faded and the original chalk dust on the figure's surface means that it was never shaken off, or played with, post-production, the auction house said.
Ben Curry and Harry Randall have shaken off injuries to make the squad.
Palmer seemed unable to shake off the spectre of the 1983 raid.
Guy Pepper's brilliant strength to shake off two tacklers and touch down in the corner almost stretched Bath's lead further only for the score to be scratched for a knock-on by Will Muir.
Levitsky told me that it helps shake off that shock to have national leaders, people who others can look to and rally behind.
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