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great shakes
Idioms and Phrases
see no great shakes .Example Sentences
Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.
"The building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me."
Their two previous quarterfinal duels at Roland Garros were actually no great shakes.
A third of the way in, we’ve already seen Kong use sign language, shower and scratch himself; Godzilla lay waste to a swath of Pensacola, Fla.; and the two wage a slugfest at sea, with Godzilla’s tail slicing through ships and Kong, no great shakes as a swimmer, struggling mightily out of his element.
My game wasn’t any great shakes, but it was decent enough that I could masquerade as a golfer.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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