sheer off

Baghdad opposed the vote, which threatened to sheer off a strategically important northern border region at a time when the government was fighting the Islamic State for a third of the country.

This town, strung out on an east-west peninsula, clings to a hillside that looks like it might sheer off during batten-the-hatches weather, which in fact is the forecast for about nine months every year.

Especially as it was so expensive, around $400, you didn’t want the hip joints to sheer off.

The type of snowfall is also key - the stickier the snow, the less likely it is to sheer off the mountain.

She's got a new job scanning brains and bodies for deadly diseases at the local hospital, no after-school child-care for Oliver, a custody battle brewing and the off-the-books movers she's hired managed to sheer off a tree branch that crushes Vincent's car.