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Dictionary of Americanism. - New-York, Bartlett 1848
No great shakes. Of no great value ; little worth. Common in England and the
United States. I had my hands full, and my head too, just then [when he wrote to
Ms.rino Faliero], so it can be no great shakes—Lord Byron to llIurray. Yit, if they
their ...
John Russel Bartlett, 1848
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A glossary of words and phrases, ...
I had my hands full, and my head too, just then [when he wrote to Marino Faliero],
so it can be no great shakes. — Lord Byron to Murray. Yit, if they their inquirations
make, In winter time some will Condemn that place as no great shakes Where ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1848
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
great minds think alike humorous said to someone just after you have discovered
that they have had the same idea as you • no great shakes informal not very good
: / m afraid I am no great shakes as a cook/at cooking! ^adverb [before noun] ...
Shakes, in the slang and colloquial phrase " It is no great shakes," meaning it is
nothing to boast of, not worth much, of inferior excellence (it occurs in Byron), has
never, I believe, been satisfactorily explained. It is probable that shakes here is ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
2; DO ANY (N0) GOOD. no great shakes Nothing out of the ordinary, mediocre,
as in I'm afraid the new pitcher is no great shakes, or What I did with this
decorating project was no great shakes. This term possibly alludes to the shaking
of dice, ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
... (OED). ?ex General Winfield Scott, a notoriously fussy candidate-for the
presidency. Cf. dickens!, the. great shakes, no. See no great shakes. Great Silent,
the The Royal Navy: derisive, occ. self-name: WW2. Ex journalistic 'the Silent
Service'.
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
GREAT be no great shakes not be very good, efficient, etc. He 's no great shakes
as a writer. going great guns proceeding vigorously and successfully Her novel is
going great guns. great and small rich and poor, powerful and weak, etc.
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The Chambers Dictionary
great shakes or no great shakes of great account or of no account: shake a tog (
often imperative; colloq) to hurry up, get moving; shake down (slang) to extort
money from by threats or blackmail; to search thoroughly; to frisk (a person for ...
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Who Said That First?: The Curious Origins of Common Words ...
No. great. shakes. The reason for referring to 'shakes' is obscure and may have
arisen from the image of a dice being shaken but only an insignificant number
thrown. 'No great shakes ...
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The Letter-bag of the
Great Western; of Life in a Steamer
... I shall have a vote in course : hut. it's no use as I hear, for voting is considered
low where it's so common, and there's no thanks where no one nose how you
votes--so reform, it seems, is no great shakes arter all Lord John's flams about it.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1840
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