warn someone off
warn someone off tell someone forcefully or threateningly to go or keep away from somewhere; originally warn someone off the course, in horse-racing, prohibit someone who has broken the laws of the Jockey Club from riding or running horses at meetings under the Jockey Club's jurisdiction.
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