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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.
See also:
shoulder
,
shrug
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Tsisana
-
Georgian
Karlee
KAHR-lee
English (Modern)
SebastiÃO
-
Portuguese
Corinna
kə-REEN-ə
(English)
, kə-RIN-ə
(English)
, ko-RI-nah
(German)
English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Emmanouel
-
Biblical Greek
Alf (3)
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