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shake off

verb

  1. to remove or be removed with or as if with a quick movement

    she shook off her depression

  2. (tr) to escape from; elude

    they shook off the police

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.
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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.

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Ben Curry and Harry Randall have shaken off injuries to make the squad.

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Palmer seemed unable to shake off the spectre of the 1983 raid.

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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.

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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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