Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry.
1Bad luck! Sharon waved his arm behind him as if shooing flies.
2Men in uniform and civvies stood talking, shooing flies, slapping mosquitoes.
3Avasarala waved a hand as if she were shooing flies.
4We have a dog Pharaoh and a horse Shoo Fly.
5The man waves his hand as if shooing flies.
6She banged again on the door while the old woman shooed flies from her sweetbreads.
7Curtain falls, and Baker wakes up to lead his orchestra through the mazes of " Shoo Fly."
8'There's nothing wrong with " Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy".'
9On Monday the presenter talks to Catherine, who has phoned in with a tip for shooing flies out of bedrooms.
10" Shoo Fly" by the Orchestra, and remarks on dress by the ladies as before.
11Every negro minstrel just now is singing the answer, and the hand organs are playing the tune, ' Shoo Fly, don't bodder me.'
12"Aren't you supposed to be in school?" He waved them toward the door as though shooing flies.
13And as soon as he walked in, he saw women crying, and children squatting, and others shooing flies off the faces of the injured men.
14"They find out who killed their governor -" Basia began, but Coop waved a hand like shooing flies.
15"I haven't heard anything about that," muttered Don Jerónimo, sticking his head out from behind the newspaper he shooed flies with.
Translations for shoo fly