(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?
Usher
Definition:
(n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
(n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
(v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
(2) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(3) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(4) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(5) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
(6) Usher's syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
(7) In a keynote speech at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, America's first black president said he and others of his generation had greatly benefited from the era of civil rights ushered in by the legislation that was passed by Johnson in 1964.
(8) Cases of hereditary syndromes were found: Usher syndrome, 2 cases; Goldenhar syndromes, 2 cases (brother and sister); Waardenburg syndrome, 1 case; von Recklinghausen's syndrome, 1 case.
(9) Usher disease was diagnosed in 12%, Bardet-Biedl syndrome constituted 5%, and the frequency of Spielmeyer-Vogt disease was 1% of all prevalent RP-cases.
(10) We examined retinas from five patients with RP and four controls and found morphologic defects in the connecting cilia of one RP patient with type 2 Usher syndrome (86% abnormal, P less than .0001) but not in our sample of patients with X-linked (n = 2), simplex (n = 1), or autosomal dominant (n = 1) RP.
(11) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(12) They see the changes that STPs will usher in as the best way to achieve three key aims: to improve people’s health; to tackle the fact that there is still far too much variation in the quality of care many patients receive; and to address the £30bn gap in NHS funding which is projected to have emerged by 2020-21.
(13) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(14) Furtado's decision has intensified the spotlight on other pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who performed at parties for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi .
(15) As examples, ultrastructural findings in neural presbycusis, Meniere's disease and Usher's syndrome are presented.
(16) Pundits say the technology ushers in a manufacturing revolution.
(17) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
(18) The modern tools of molecular biology and improved understanding of scientific and social issues are expected to usher in an exciting new era in research on diarrheal diseases.
(19) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
(20) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.