She waved one hand as if she were chasing off a bothersome fly.

The professor brushed the sheriff's hand aside as though it were a bothersome fly.

She made a flicking gesture with her hand, as if he was a bothersome fly.

Mamud waved away a bothersome fly as he very carefully examined the face of this one.

I slapped at a bothersome fly trying to feast upon the stud's neck.

When we flick bothersome flies, they become too light to sit, so must fly away.

With his broad beavertail he fended off the bothersome flies which had not died out even in an age of robots.

Or would he brush it aside as a bothersome fly on the carcass of greater events?

Miz waved this distinction away with one hand as though it was a bothersome fly.

Then the dragon blew at him as a sleeping man might blow at a bothersome fly.