(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?
Soho
Definition:
(interj.) Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.
Example Sentences:
(1) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
(2) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
(3) Nevertheless, Dickens's preoccupation with class in Great Expectations strikes a chord with Coltrane, who gives a good idea of what it means to him when he recalls coming across a few Bullingdon Club types outside a restaurant in Soho one night.
(4) I had been given unusually detailed instructions about how to find him in his Soho offices – as if he were in hiding rather than at work: “It looks a little unlikely but don’t be deterred, you’re in the right place.
(5) Richard E Grant's Comstock is a considerably more comical figure - particularly well-suited to the disastrous Soho binge when some money does come in - while Helena Bonham-Carter's Rosemary has become considerably more sexually confident.
(6) The Soho masses are understood to be the only ones of their kind in England and Wales.
(7) I remember when Ornette moved into Manhattan to a loft on Prince Street in SoHo in the late 60s – he was ahead of the game on that front as well.
(8) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(9) This romantic – if slightly cramped – bistro in Lexington Street is hard to get into as it effectively acts as a dining room for the great and not so good of Soho's literary establishment, who often frequent the Academy Club upstairs.
(10) The comedian, much of whose material involves onstage audience participation, is in the running for breakthrough act, best sketch or character act and best show for Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches , which is currently playing at the Soho Theatre.
(11) After the takeover is finalised, he will work in Yahoo's Soho offices by day, where he will be the company's youngest employee, and continue studying for his A-levels in the evening.
(12) "I actually wanted to buck the trend and move to Soho, but then I realised the rent's cheaper here," says Simon Prockter, who arrived in January to set up HouseBites , a gourmet takeaway service for people who want a quick, cheap meal cooked and hand-delivered by local chefs.
(13) The last time he drew attention in London he had told a journalist outside the Golden Lion pub in Soho that Pardew would be sacked if Newcastle lost at Stoke City on 29 September.
(14) A judge has ruled that a Soho brothel shut down by police earlier this month can reopen for business.
(15) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(16) The sense of Soho as a gay village or Vauxhall as a gay village is going,” he says.
(17) Florence Knight is head chef of Polpetto, which will reopen in November at 11 Berwick Street, Soho.
(18) In 2010, Fielding had an exhibition at the Maison Bertaux patisserie in Greek Street, Soho, starring Ferry.
(19) "It's important that it's still in Soho after 48 years.
(20) Having sold his once-expensive books of literary theory for a derisory sum, he finds himself in a food store for "the super-gentry of SoHo and Tribeca", where the midsize piece of wild salmon he has selected has just been priced at $78.40 (2001 rates).