shoo-fly! excl.
an excl. of denial, disdain: ‘get away!’ ‘get out of here!’.
Chicago Republican 24 July 8/1: [Baseball] players invariably say ‘Shoo-fly’, when they make a miss. | ||
Americanisms 484/2: Shoo! fly! don’t bother me! An exclamation of impatience. Shoo and fly are both common ejaculations in country districts when driving wandering fowls or cattle from gardens etc., to legitimate pastures... The full phrase is now familiarly colloquial. | ||
‘’Arriet on Labour’ in Punch 26 Aug. 88/1: ‘Labour!’ I sez, ‘Oh, shoo fly, Sam! You ’orny-’anded codgers— / [...] / are reglar Artful Dodgers.’. | ||
Meridional (Abbeville, LA) 7 Mar. 2/1: Sambo move / With swift acceleration; / For I’m a Pharr [...] of Sugar-teat persuasion, / Shoo-fly coon. | ||
Amer. Lang. 311: Shoo-fly afflicted the American people for at least two years, and ‘I don’t think’ and aber nit quite as long. | ||
Hard Bounce [ebook] The landlord cut me a deal when 4DC shoo-flyed some meth-head squatters from another one of his properties. |