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.
See also: shoulder, shrug

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Tsisana-Georgian
KarleeKAHR-leeEnglish (Modern)
SebastiÃO-Portuguese
Corinnakə-REEN-ə (English), kə-RIN-ə (English), ko-RI-nah (German)English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Emmanouel-Biblical Greek
Alf (3)-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish