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Significados de shoo fly em inglês

português
joá-de-capote

Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry.

        joá-de-capote
        Uso de shoo fly em inglês
        1
        Bad luck! Sharon waved his arm behind him as if shooing flies.
        Library of Souls
        2
        Men in uniform and civvies stood talking, shooing flies, slapping mosquitoes.
        Break No Bones
        3
        Avasarala waved a hand as if she were shooing flies.
        Caliban's War
        4
        We have a dog Pharaoh and a horse Shoo Fly.
        The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
        5
        The man waves his hand as if shooing flies.
        The good son: a novel
        6
        She banged again on the door while the old woman shooed flies from her sweetbreads.
        Night of Knives
        7
        Curtain falls, and Baker wakes up to lead his orchestra through the mazes of " Shoo Fly."
        Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870
        8
        'There's nothing wrong with " Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy".'
        Amagansett
        9
        On Monday the presenter talks to Catherine, who has phoned in with a tip for shooing flies out of bedrooms.
        The Irish Times
        10
        " Shoo Fly" by the Orchestra, and remarks on dress by the ladies as before.
        Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870
        11
        Every negro minstrel just now is singing the answer, and the hand organs are playing the tune, ' Shoo Fly, don't bodder me.'
        Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
        12
        "Aren't you supposed to be in school?" He waved them toward the door as though shooing flies.
        Nevermore
        13
        And as soon as he walked in, he saw women crying, and children squatting, and others shooing flies off the faces of the injured men.
        Answered prayers
        14
        "They find out who killed their governor -" Basia began, but Coop waved a hand like shooing flies.
        Cibola Burn
        15
        "I haven't heard anything about that," muttered Don Jerónimo, sticking his head out from behind the newspaper he shooed flies with.
        Who killed palomino molero?
        Translations for shoo fly
        português
        joá-de-capote