warn off

English

Verb

warn off (third-person singular simple present warns off, present participle warning off, simple past and past participle warned off)

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   • 1856, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, in Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands‎, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 47:

     I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period.

   • 2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing, page 81:

     Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.