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71shy of something — phrase slightly less than, slightly earlier than, or a short distance from something They scored just shy of 100 goals last year. I called him only two minutes shy of midnight. Thesaurus: not enoughsynonym Main entry: shy …
72shy|lock — «SHY lok», noun. 1. the relentless and vengeful moneylender in Shakespeare s play The Merchant of Venice. 2. a greedy moneylender. 3. any moneylender. shy|lock «SHY lok», intransitive verb. to lend money at an excessively high or unlawful rate of …
73Shy|lock — «SHY lok», noun. 1. the relentless and vengeful moneylender in Shakespeare s play The Merchant of Venice. 2. a greedy moneylender. 3. any moneylender. shy|lock «SHY lok», intransitive verb. to lend money at an excessively high or unlawful rate of …
74shy of something — shy of (something) having less of something than is needed or expected. The bill was four votes shy of a majority. He was a large man, just shy of six feet tall. Related vocabulary: short of something …
75shy away — ˌshy a ˈway [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they shy away he/she/it shies away present participle shying away past tense shied away …
76Shy Tory Factor — is a name given by British opinion polling companies to a phenomenon observed in the 1990s, where the share of the vote won by the Conservative Party (i.e. the Tories ) in elections was substantially higher than the proportion of people in… …
77Shy-Magee syndrome — Shy Ma·gee syndrome (shiґ mə geeґ) [G.M. Shy; Kenneth Raymond Magee, American physician, born 1926] central core disease …
78shy\ away — • shy away • shy off v To avoid; seem frightened or nervous. The boys shied away from our questions. The horse shied off when Johnny tried to mount it …
79shy\ off — • shy away • shy off v To avoid; seem frightened or nervous. The boys shied away from our questions. The horse shied off when Johnny tried to mount it …
80shy away from something — shy away from (something/doing something) to avoid something. I tend to shy away from big guitar solos on records. At first, some companies shied away from selling merchandise on the Internet, but not for long …
