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Verb
say boo (third-person singular simple present says boo, present participle saying boo, simple past and past participle said boo)
(informal, chiefly US)
- (always in the negative) To say anything, especially in protest or to complain.
She took the last piece of cake, and nobody said boo.
1993 March 24, Mr. [Harris W. ]Fawell, quotee, Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1036 , →OCLC, page 41:Nobody says boo about it, nobody has had any problems with it until the Hydrostorage case came along.
2004, Beverly Barton, Worth Dying For, →ISBN:" […] What did you say to her to make her run off?" An incredulous expression formed on Tad's face. "I didn't say boo to the kid. […] "
2018, Ingrid Persaud, “The Sweet Sop”, in The BBC National Short Story Award, →ISBN:That kind of bad mind was not Christian but I wasn't saying boo. I am not that brave or that stupid.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:say boo.
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