Shake off

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Shake off 

To shake off something means to get rid of it, usually something negative—like a feeling, a habit, or even an illness.
Examples:

1- She caught a small cold last week, but she shook it off in just a couple of days.
2- After a bad breakup, it took him a few weeks to shake off the sadness and feel like himself again.

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Transcript

Hello and welcome to Daily English! Today’s expression is “shake off.” Once again: shake off.

Can you guess what it means? Let’s try a couple of hints:

• Imagine you’re walking in the rain. When you finally get home, you take off your jacket and you literally move your arms fast to get rid of the water.
  
  
  
• Or imagine someone feels really sad after getting bad news… but after talking to a friend and eating some ice cream, they start to smile again. They managed to “shake off” that sadness. So what does shake off mean?  To shake off something means to get rid of it, usually something negative—like a feeling, a habit, or even an illness.
   It’s about recovering quickly or freeing yourself from something that’s bothering you.

Examples: After a bad breakup, it took him a few weeks to shake off the sadness and feel like himself again.

• The soccer team couldn’t shake off their nerves and lost the game.
  
  
  
• She caught a small cold last week, but she shook it off in just a couple of days.
  
  
  
• Sometimes famous actors get bad reviews, but the best ones just shake it off and move forward.

Can you think of a time when you had to shake off a bad feeling, a bad day, or even a bad habit?   What helped you do it?  Was it fast—or did it take a while?