give the shake

give (someone) the shake

Slang

To escape from or get rid of: We managed to give our pursuers the shake.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shoshana	-	Hebrew
Peppi	-	Italian
Johanna	yo-HAH-nah (German), yo-HAHN-nah (Danish, Dutch), YO-hahn-nah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, English, Late Roman
Jacquetta	[dʒə'ketə]
Armour	['a:mə]
Ballesteros	[bælə'steərɔs]