shake.html - See: MORE THAN ONE COULD SHAKE A STICK AT.

shake.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To be very much afraid. * /The robber shook in his boots when the police knocked on his door./

shake.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To go fast; hurry. * /Shake a leg! The bus won't wait./ Compare: STEP ON IT.

shake.html - {v. phr.} 1. To cause to fall by shaking. * /He shook some pears down from the free./ 2. {informal} To test, practice, get running smoothly (a ship or ship's crew). * /The captain shook down his new ship on a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea./ 3. {slang} To get money from by threats. * /The gangsters shook the store owner down every month./

shake.html - {v.}, {informal} To get away from when followed; get rid of; escape from. * /A convict escaped from prison and shook off the officers trying to follow him./ * /Tom could not shake off his cold./

shake.html - {v. phr.} To depart or leave with some measure of disgust or displeasure. * /Jim was so unhappy in our small, provincial town that he was glad to shake the dust from his feet and move to New York./