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Idioms and Phrases

see no great shakes .
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Example Sentences

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Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.

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"The building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me."

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Their two previous quarterfinal duels at Roland Garros were actually no great shakes.

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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.

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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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