(interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
(5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
(6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
(7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
(8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
(9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
(10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
(11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
(12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
(13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
(15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
(16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
(17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
(18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
(19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
(20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.
Shoo
Definition:
(interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently a junior employment minister, she has been widely tipped as a shoo-in for Ken Clarke's job in the cabinet as minister for TV studios (or minister without portfolio, to give it its official title).
(2) 11.07am BST Just think, if this had happened 10 years ago, Martin O'Neill would have been a shoo-in for the job.
(3) The world of Eurovision is also strangely comforting: at some level it takes me back to the world of childhood eisteddfods, where I regularly performed public atrocities on a number of alleged artforms believing myself a shoo-in for a guest appearance on Young Talent Time and, in time, a Logie.
(4) Conservative Central Office is certainly not assuming that a recession would mean the election is a shoo-in for them.
(5) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
(6) The frontrunner in the Swedish general election this weekend is scrambling to stop his campaign being damaged after he shooed away a political adversary during a television debate.
(7) Poulter is, in fact, a shoo-in to captain this continent in the future.
(8) Visiting Corby this week, Ed Miliband was keen to play down expectations that Labour is a shoo-in for the byelection caused by Louise Mensch's resignation, the Guardian reported.
(9) Add to that its pretensions to nation-building and the rather woolly hope that this will persuade the likes of South Sudan and North Korea to sign up to the chemical weapons treaty, and the OPCW was a shoo-in.
(10) Not only did the drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stutter on the eve of the second world war proceed to take the award for best picture and the awards for which it was a shoo-in – best actor for Colin Firth and best original screenplay for David Seidler – it also, in the evening's sole upset, won the best director prize for Tom Hooper.
(11) In February 2011 Pinewood announced a partnership deal to shoo movies at a studio in the Dominican Republic which it hopes will give it a foothold in the fast-growing Latin American film and TV market.
(12) Stella Creasy is possibly best known to date for being shooed away from a members-only lift in the House of Commons by a Tory minister who refused to believe that this "blonde woman" could be an MP because she looked "too young".
(13) But his decision to shoo police officers off the steps of St Paul's 12 days ago and support the peaceful anti-capitalist protest on his doorstep catapulted him into the media stratosphere.
(14) If you try to shoo people from each area as they are priced out by rents, at some point they’re going to mind.
(15) The 23-year-old Maasai is the 800m world champion and world record holder, and the closest thing there is to a shoo-in for a gold medal on the track at the 2012 Games.
(16) Initially, deputy clerk Lana Gordon said she wasn't sure she had the authority and shooed the couples from her office.
(17) Bauer is not in active negotiations with BBC Worldwide over the sale of its magazine division, effectively ending months of speculation the German publisher is a shoo-in to become the new owner of titles including Top Gear and Radio Times.
(18) Italy need to win to be sure of going through, and that ain't a shoo-in.
(19) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
(20) Were his connections with the most powerful media empire in the land related to the fact that he was an obvious shoo-in?