shaking off in English

moving back and forth quickly; avoiding, evading

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1. Chinos are fast shaking off their preppy connotations

2. Apollonistic 5068148108 Ferme la bouche! Author slowly shaking off the weekly chart? Fill bean container

3. True, the judiciary has changed for the better since shaking off the yoke of the executive.

4. Add a few veal shanks at a time and coat well with flour, shaking off any excess.

5. Please think about these things in a more reasonable mood, shaking off the excess melodrama as you proceed.

6. See the article “Shaking Off the Yoke of Spiritism” in the September 1, 1987, issue of our companion magazine, The Watchtower, published by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

7. When the oil reaches 375 degrees, increase the heat to high and add the Battered fish to the oil with tongs, gently shaking off any excess flour.

8. Shaking off the sleet from my ice- glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.

9. Her chief trouble, as far as I can judge, is the impossibility of shaking off her distinguished relatives, who furtively quit their Abject splendor to drop in upon her for dinner and a little genuine human society much oftener than is convenient to poor Erskine.

10. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn- cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.