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no great shakes
Idioms and Phrases
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, which most often yields a mediocre result, but there is no evidence to support this theory. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.
Their two previous quarterfinal duels at Roland Garros were actually no great shakes.
A third of the way in, weâve 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 Godzillaâs tail slicing through ships and Kong, no great shakes as a swimmer, struggling mightily out of his element.
It could be described as no great shakes.
We do know that close-ups on nibbled waterlogged corpses are no great shakes these days, and we encounter them in the premiere of "Clarice" . . . but not before flashbacks showing Buffalo Bill sewing what is supposed to be the lotioned skin of his victims.
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