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shake

n. a milkshake. (Colloquial or Standard English.) I’d like a chocolate shake, please.

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• a fair shake
• be no great shakes
• be shaking in boots
• body shake
• bone shaking
• brace of shakes
• fair shake
• fair shake, a
• get the lead out
• get the shakes
• give (someone) the shake
• give (someone) the shakes
• give the shake
• give your head a shake
• have the shakes
• I’m shaking
• I’m shaking in fear
• in a brace of shakes
• in two shakes
• in two shakes of a lamb's tail
• kick a habit
• knock the dew off the lily
• Let's shake on it
• more than can shake a stick at
• more than one can shake a stick at
• no great shakes
• quake in one's boots
• rock to its foundations
• shake
• shake a disease or illness off
• shake a leg
• Shake a leg!
• shake a stick at
• shake down
• shake hand
• shake hands
• shake hands with the unemployed
• shake head
• shake in (one's) shoes
• shake in boots
• shake it
• Shake it up!
• Shake it!
• shake like a leaf
• shake like an aspen leaf
• shake off
• shake on
• shake on it
• shake one's head
• shake out
• shake someone down
• shake someone's tree
• shake the dew off the lily
• shake the dust from one's feet
• shake the foundations of
• shake the pagoda tree
• shake tree
• shake up
• shake with laughter
• shakes
• shake-up
• two shakes of a lamb’s tail
• two shakes of a lamb's tail