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  • 91shake off — Synonyms and related words: beg, cast off, circumvent, clear, dispel, ditch, do away with, double, eliminate, elude, escape, evade, exterminate, fling off, get around, get away from, get clear of, get free of, get out of, get quit of, get rid of …

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  • 92shake up — Synonyms and related words: abate, accelerate, accuse, action, ad hoc measure, agitate, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, answer, arouse, arraign, artifice, attenuate, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, blame, blunt, call to account, cast blame …

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  • 93Shake your shamrocks — Infobox Album| Background = green Name = Shake Your Shamrocks Released = 1995 (New Zealand) Type = Album Recorded = Genre = Folk Length = Label = Independent Producer = Reviews = Artist = Various Artists Last album = This album = Next album =… …

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  • 94shake on it — mainly spoken used for saying that you want to shake hands with someone in order to show that you both agree to something Lance held his hand out and said, Let s shake on it …

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  • 95shake a stick at — threaten, intimidate; point out; quantify; name (usually used in the expression more than one can shake a stick at ); …

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  • 96shake a leg —    If you shake a leg, you are out of bed and active.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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  • 97shake hands — to greet or say goodbye by briefly joining hands with someone and moving them slightly up and down. On the way out, the president stopped to shake hands with many in the audience …

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  • 98Shake a leg —   If you shake a leg, you are out of bed and active …

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  • 99shake a leg — Meaning Rouse yourself and get out of bed. Origin Naval origin. An alternative to show a leg . This was the injunction given by naval officers to ratings who they were rousing from sleep. Showing a leg out of the sailor s hammock was required to… …

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  • 100shake down — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb l. Slang. To obtain by coercion or intimidation: exact, extort, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring. See GET. 2. Slang. To make a thorough search of: comb, forage, ransack, rummage, scour2. Idioms: beat the bushes, leave no… …

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