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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
Donald
DAHN-əld
(English)
Scottish, English
Mathew
MATH-yoo
English
Christiane
kris-tee-AH-nə
(German)
, krees-TYAHN
(French)
German, French
Oier
-
Basque
Kaja (1)
KAH-yah
(Swedish, Estonian)
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Estonian, Slovene
Spomenka
-
Croatian
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