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- shrug one's shoulders
shrug one's shoulders
shrug one's shoulders
Show indecision or indifference, as in When I asked her if she minded staying home, she just shrugged her shoulders. This redundant idiom- shrug means "to raise and contract the shoulders"-dates from about 1450.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Anastasiy | | - | Russian (Archaic), Bulgarian (Archaic) |
| Kjetil | | - | Norwegian |
| MĂDĂLina | | - | Romanian |
| Alkyone | | - | Greek Mythology |
| Moses | | MOZ-əs (English) | English, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin |
| Sol | | [sɔl] | |