"shut him off" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to stop someone or something from continuing or functioning. It is often used in spoken English as well. Example: During the meeting, Jim kept interrupting everyone with his irrelevant comments, so I had to shut him off to get the discussion back on track.
He will stay in the race for as long as he possibly can. 3. Romney is not so much the Microsoft of candidates as the talking paperclip of candidates: "It looks like you are experiencing economic hardship!" Sure, he's helpful at first, but JESUS CHRIST, HOW DO YOU SHUT HIM OFF? 4. Newt Gingrich is willing to sacrifice everything, including himself and/or the party, to destroy Mitt Romney.
I couldn't shut him off".
His abilities shut him off from everyone else.
It seems to shut him off from the world, and his feelings for her include those of both son and lover.
Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day (1989; film 1993) is a first-person narrative, the reminiscences of Stevens, an elderly English butler whose prim mask of formality has shut him off from understanding and intimacy.
Critically, when the Frenchman began his run before the bell, Kenny shut him off coming into the home straight, then led out through the final banking, depriving Baugé of any height on the track.
The president's shortcomings have not been helped by the wall of security surrounding the presidential palace in Kabul, largely shutting him off from the realities of Afghan daily life.
His dark eyes, which at once gleam with playfulness and seem always on the verge of shutting him off into sleep, say it all: save your energy for when it matters.
I know, that's the point, that Mr. McQueen wants to show how the intensity of Brandon's need shuts him off from real intimacy, but this seems to be a foregone conclusion, the result of an elegant experiment that was rigged from the start".
Recycle, shut off water, shut off lights, stop the bullying.
DO NOT FIGHT HIM, shut the game off and resume where you saved at the last trainer you fought.
