foregone conclusion, frontrunner, contender, longshot, cinch, goner, heir apparent, unseats, electable, cakewalk, anoint, fool, untouchable, likeliest, cuckoo, grabs, unopposed, snatch, nominated, swat, upstage, tossup, straggler, vie, nonentity, whippersnapper, lamest, lock, consolation prize, beeline, coronated, lieutenant governorship, gunning, neophyte, poobah, steppingstone, defenestrate, skedaddle, slinking, prognosticating, unbloodied, frighten, nowhere, coveted, jinxed, holdover, snubbed, heath hen, disinclined, scaredy, swan song, dead ringer, earshot, greenhorn, pssst, hang, wimp, invincible, pushover, chirruped, presumptuous, pry, wrest, gimme, scaring, eying, hurray, waddled, corral, catbird, kidding, nosing, dethrone, fazing, charmed, au revoir, lure, slam dunk, eyeshot, manhandle, nomination, woo, nominee, finagle, candidate, whup, brainer, destined, ganders, headed, nod, sniffing, stepping stone, annoy, lame duck, cornered, beckoning, vamoose, surefire, chucked, victorious, unknown quantity, chee, doo, ma, ne, ba, cackle, clack, cymbals, gram, ha, ra, sus, wa, whimper, ado, artifices, ay, babel, backwaters, bandbox, laugh, blow, butter, die, sit, tow, yoo, ang, bail, ber, blacking, bo, boo, bu, drag, fan, fanning, gall

chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back

shoo away, shoo off